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  1. Looking back on this episode, I realize I made a serious blunder - not even a single Transformers joke....
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  2. Still has my favorite Biblical phrase - those that "pisseth against the wall."
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  3. Thanks to Zdzisław Beksiński
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  4. What a pity it's such a fragmentary text - great work, friend! Blessed Ramadan, happy and kosher Pesach and happy Easter to all celebrating!
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  5. Sorry for the Re-upload, folks! But, when a massive corporation claims a 200 year old painting as somehow their copyright - it isn't and can't be, clearly fair use - it can threaten the whole channel. So, here we are. Thanks for all your support!
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  6. Would be dope to do some kind of collab with him on alchemy topics
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  7. Thanks for the shout-out, Dr. Baker! Would love to work on something together at some point.
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  8. Where is the music for the opening? I had to mute it because "DANCE ALL DAY Musicvertriebs GmbH" - https://www.dance-all-day.com/#contact - is fraudulently claiming that my use of 18 seconds of a public domain version of Chopin's Nocturne is under their copyright and YouTube is doing nothing about it. So, I had to remove the music opening sequence and have to have the music re-recorded at my own expense. It isn't fair that a large corporation can falsely claim music as their property in an attempt to hijack the funds I use to support this educational channel. Please consider supporting Esoterica at Patreon so I can have some financial independence from YouTube given that they so easily betray creators to corporate greed and fraud. Many thanks for your support!
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  9. several centuries later "Your MOM's an emanation!" "Well, at least she's not an ARCHON like your MOM!"
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  10. Esoterica for breakfast ;) Great work, Andrew!
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  11. Always great working together, Filip. Thanks for all you do!
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  12. Just to be clear - I am an academic studying, not practicing, this material. I've gotten a couple of messages asking me about obtaining an exorcism: Please Note I can't and don't offer spiritual advice of any kind. If you are experiencing obsession/possession symptoms I would urge you to contact a mental health professional and/or a reputable spiritual leader held to public account by their respective community.
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  13. The long game....
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  14. Millsaps College - https://millsaps.edu/ You can contact President Neville - frank.neville@millsaps.edu You can contact Interim Provost Rolph - rolphsc@millsaps.edu Please ensure that any contact with Millsaps College is professional. Read the letter from FIRE here - https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/fire-letter-millsaps-college-december-18-2024 "Dear Interim Provost Rolph and President Neville, I am reaching out to you in support of Prof. James Bowley. Along with many others, I am demanding that you immediately reinstate, compensate him for damages and publicly apologize to James Bowley. Signed "
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  15. Sorry for the background noise! I'm in the process of renovating my office and without all the books I don't have the same amount of sound insulation.
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  16. Comments focusing on Mishima's politics without reference to Sun and Steel will be moderated. This isn't the place for either endorsing romantic reactionism nor virtue signaling how anti-fascist you are.
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  17. Wonderful! Actually working on an episode on the Epistle to Flora and Summer Harvest for next week!
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  18. I don't dictate the history I do my best to be as honest and thorough as I can. I just deeply appreciate everyone coming on the journey with me.
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  19. Also, my apologies for not mentioning the very metal meaning of her name - "Powerful in Combat" - \m/
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  20. Wonderful to work together, Filip - these collaboration episodes are just the best!
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  21. Why is the theme music muted? Learn more about how YouTube's Copyright AI is threatening the channel - https://youtu.be/4lLVie8usfg
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  22. Wonderful working together again, Filip - I'm so blessed to call you both colleague and friend!
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  24. Prexactly
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  25. I learned some Mandaic (it's a lot like the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud!) to read the Ginza Rba - Have loved your channel for years and appreciate the work you do! Our content overlap's a lot and it would be great to work together on something!
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  26. It's ok to be a wierdo....even preferable.
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  27. Well done, mom. Well done.
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  28. Alright game designers - who wants to make a puzzle based on this? Hmu!
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  29. Great working together, Filip! Greetings everyone from somewhere in the gulf of Mexico.
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  30. Me too!
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  31. There seem to be a lot of comments - Monty Python aside - on the Spanish Inquisition. To be clear, this episode only goes up to about 1321 with the execution of the last known Cathar. The Spanish Inquisition doesn't even begin until 1478 over 150 years later. In fact, as I point out in the episode, Spain under Alfonso X was the only region of Europe free of Inquisition during this period.
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  32. Great collaborating with you Filip - It's wonderful to share space with such great content. Your channel is such an asset to youtube and I'm proud to have worked together!
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  33. This comment really means the world to me. Thanks so much!
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  34. I'll let you know as things develop!
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  37. Part II - https://youtu.be/U-jIScgb7Nc Support Esoterica! becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel or the Super Thanks - Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  38. A few points I could have made clearer in this episode: Pre-modern people primarily related to the Runes as a system for writing, not as a system of symbols. Bureus is the first person for which we have evidence for the use of Runes primarily as mystical symbols. If you primarily relate to the Runes as a system of mystical symbols then you are much more historically and spiritually similar to Bureus than pre-Christian Rune-users. That shouldn’t surprise us: he’s closer to us in virtually every sense - historically, religiously, philosophically, anthropologically, etc. - than he was to the Vikings, etc. Bureus’ mystical system is profoundly Christian, even if a specific kind of hermetic-kabbalisitic Christianity. Aside from his theological and soteriological interpolations, his text abounds in Biblical prooftexts. Unfortunately, this fact is conspicuously ignored and even distorted in contemporary occult discussion of the Adulruna Rediviva. I suspect this is out of other theological agendas or the unfortunate anti-Christian bias of much of contemporary occultism. However, let’s not commit the genetic fallacy. Neo-Pagan spiritual practices descended genealogically from this very Christian form of mysticism aren’t guilty of some original sin. Spiritual practices evolve and often reach religious escape velocity from their origins. Before mocking the admittedly outlandish mystical positions that Bureus comes to vis-a-vis surviving old Norse religious texts, recall that he was the best educated person on this topic in his lifetime. He employed the most advanced hermeneutical, linguistic and epigraphic tools anyone had access to. Further, his mystical orientation was underwritten by multiple learned streams that we all praise as part of the intellectually high water mark of the Renaissance and that he brought together with truly deft finesse. All that and he still ended up with positions that strike us - and are, to be honest - astoundly at odds with historical Norse religion. Let that inspire intellectual and spiritual humility in us and lead us to question those who unflinchingly provide The Answers™ when we pose honest questions because the historical evidence is simply inconclusive. Finally, while the spiritual creativity of Bureus can and should be praised, I hope it can also equally inspire us to be comfortable with simply not knowing and thus not rushing to fill in those gaps with our own wishes, biases and spiritual agendas.
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  39. What a mistake I didn't use this opportunity to make this joke. Thank you for doing so!
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  40. "feelings?" "journaling?" What are these things you speak of? But not, no effects so far as I could tell.  @gastonmarian7261 
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  42. Goofy.... goofy?
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  43. I'll be covering the ring that does that in a future episode! But why? No idea, medieval money laundering?
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  45. I've got an Asherah episode up my sleeve and I'll be discussing this sleight of hand with her and the Lady of Wisdom.
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  46. What a cool connection! Thanks for the work you do!
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  47. Definitely not better than 8 year olds opening Legos
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  48. That's a helluva compliment :)
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  50. Comments like this makes it so worth it - so many profound and sincere thanks.
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  51. I'm all about practicing occultism (etc.) in whatever way is edifying but this channel is academic. However, I hope a whole spectrum of people could find the information useful.
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  52. That's the rare golden teachers edition
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  53. Thanks so much, brother! It's just such a shame when such non-sense gets in the way of just trying to produce educational content. Hope you're well - we should catch up soon!
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  54. United Alchemists 101
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  55. Went full-time myself a couple years ago. Happy to brainstorm if you want. Best of luck!
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  56. May your mom's memory be for a blessing. It really warms my heart - and I mean that - to hear that these videos are comforting to anyone enduring hardship. You matter and I want to express my sincere thanks for such a brave and kind comment. I'm so proud of this community and people like you. May we all be blessed with the strength to endure and thrive. The way out is through and we'll make it together.
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  57. Buy Ant Coin - 🐜 🪙
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  58. Best analogy
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  59. Such an honor and pleasure to be on our shared Spinoza pilgrimage together! We even got to stop at one of Descartes' houses as well!
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  60. Folks, this guy is a blessing - Count me thankful for you and your content, Filip. Happy New Year, brother!
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  61. Thanks Jorge, It's not that I know nothing it's just not my strong suit and I try to make that clear. And, of course, you can see that in the content around here - it profoundly skews pre-1800. Though, this summer I'm planning to do some reading, especially on 1700-1800 to bring things more into the contemporary period. We'll see if it sticks :) Thanks so much!
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  62. Hi Folks - By popular demand I'll be doing a video on working with medieval manuscripts sometime this summer - Look out for it!
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  63. And it was good.
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  64. Vibes
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  65. ;) It's when you start obsessing about dialects - "The text is Sahidic but betrays many Subakhmimic qualities!" At that point, there is no escape - the condition is terminal!
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  66. Interestingly, she was probably more widely venerated, especially in Egypt.
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  67. I appreciate the support and kind words so much. This channel is just getting started and I am humbled by how much support we are getting. I hope it increases and I can more and more to make the content here the highest quality possible and accessible to anyone who want to engage with it. Thanks so much!
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  68. ha!
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  69. The channel ain't called Esoterica for nothing
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  70. and it's often shocking how mundane their tasks were. Literally cleaning up the house, sometimes. Same with golems, Ibn Gabirol literally made a golem to be a house-cleaner. Now that I think of it, I could use a demon/golem PA.....
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  71. I hope that's not why I'm here.
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  72. Yeah, kinda. But if you're going to be wrong be systematically wrong.
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  73. Not just that but your whole body of work. I'm profoundly grateful for all you've done. We all are.
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  74. It's just an old book. The real flex is us all working together to make sure its agenda is never realized.
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  75. May we all merit such a six pack ;)
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  76. After 14 weeks we bring the seminar on Agrippa's Occult Philosophy to a conclusion. Many thanks to everyone that watched and to the channel Patrons that made it possible. Prepping this project has required deep research dives, a substantial amount of translation work and hours and hours of research. Again, this project was and is an experiment in crowd-funded, university-level education offered at a "pay what you can" scale: it's basically free for anyone. If you've watched, learned and/or enjoyed the seminar please consider supporting channel via the links in the pinned comment.
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  77. Thanks for this comment. And, yes, from one religious minority to another - I have great respect for Zoroastrianism and its adherents: a tremendously beautiful faith and tradition. But not, Zarathushtra was much, much before the adoption of his faith and reform by the western magi, for sure.
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  79. Why the Re-Upload? Because "DANCE ALL DAY Musicvertriebs GmbH" - https://www.dance-all-day.com/#contact - is fraudulently claiming that my use of 18 seconds of a public domain version of Chopin's Nocturne is under their copyright and @YouTube is doing nothing about it. So, I had to remove my opening sequence and will probably have to have the music re-recorded at my own expense. Please consider supporting the channel over at Patreon so if things like this happen I'll be able to pivot and keep providing this educational content for free. Thanks for the support!
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  80. In the American south we worship him as y'allweh
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  81. I've seen that other 'MaRXiSm Iz GnOsTiCIsM!!!!!" stuff on YT and listening to it somehow made me stupider. I don't wish that on anyone.
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  82. Thanks for all the well-wishes and Mazal Tovs on the birth of our Baby, named just today: Zohar Maqav! Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  83. Wishing everyone a Wonderful Jewish/Hebrew New Year - !שנה טובה ומתוקה - May 5782 be full of blessings (or at least be less of a dumpster fire).
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  84. "Pazuzu, hey, you have to unmute yourself"
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  85. Yep, I think we all have a lot of respect for each other personally and for our educational efforts. For me, I enjoy building these kind of relationships. Further, I think it's just the right thing to do to use my platform to amplify the voices of other scholars.
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  86. They don't even dress well, one of the only things fascism has going for it.
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  87. gotta release it on your channel. Hermes-Core
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  88. Folks, here's your chance - thank this gentleman and scholar.
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  89. Or "Our Lady of holy shit you drank leper water"
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  90. Zohar explains this by referring to the "10 kings of Edom that ruled and died" such that there have already been 10 creations prior to this one with remnants (including 'people') having survived from those periods during each re-creation
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  92. Check out Angela's episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LipZzzoj-4M & https://youtu.be/8WJzCwK6Hus Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store
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  93. That's a great idea, and I agree! We really take for granted that we see the world the same at all and that couldn't be further from the case.
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  94. slander implies what I'm saying is false :)
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  95. That's what educators do. The crowdfunding makes it all possible.
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  97. Thanks - yeah, I try to leave the woo to others.
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  98. Glad to hear that. Hope you are fairing well during this storm we call life.
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  100. Yeah, she strikes me as a rather malevolent person, much more fearsome than any 'demon'
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  101. Absolutely, Malta is one of the most fascinating places for me! I'd love to visit.
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  102. This is a very important insight
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  103. Not to mention the Vril Atlantis Ninja Kabbalah.
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  104. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel New Channel Goals & News ! Winter 2020 Seminar - This goal will allow me to host a 2020/1 winter seminar on a topic set by my patrons and enjoyed by you! My goal is to provide a reader, discussion group, and 1.5 hour long sessions over the course of 4-5 weeks deeply exploring a text or topic in Western Western Esotericism in addition to my weekly content. This will also support my longer term goal of teaching a university level Introduction to Western Esotericism course next summer! Next Summer Class - My goal here is to get enough support to teach a university level Introduction to Western Esotericism and Hermetic Philosophy course next summer spanning an entire academic semester starting in May and ending in August. We could meet twice a week for lectures and discussion. I would provide a pdf reader for the class along with discussions and office hours. It would be a fully online course with the sessions available to the public as well - a real attempt in totally open, crowdfunded education on one of the most difficult to find fields in academia.
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  106. Oh there definitely lots of cuts but thanks!
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  107. What about the connection of Solomon to Moloch in 1 Kings 11? It’s probably just a scribal mistake. In verse 5 we correctly have: וילך שלמה אחרי עשתרת אלהי צדנים ואחרי מלכם שקץ עמנים Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Phoenicians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Then in verse 7 אז יבנה שלמה במה לכמוש שקץ מואב בהר אשר על־פני ירושל͏ם ולמלך שקץ בני עמון At that time, Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh the abomination of Moab on the hill near Jerusalem, and one for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. There it's probable that the sofit mem of Milcom was dropped thus transforming that Kaf into a sofit Kaf and pointed to read “molech.” However, Molech was probably not a god, much less the god of the Ammonites. Milcom was, as correctly noted in verse 5.
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  108. Comments like these just make my day. Thanks for taking the time to view our content and leaving such a thoughtful reflection - I really mean it. I'm working hard to produce content that is reliable, scholarly and helpful to skeptics and practitioners alike and I'm glad you found the episode interesting. Check out our other material as well!
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  109. It's just as sacred and ridiculous as any other scripture.
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  110. I think the Talmud says something like "We never read a text, we only ever read ourselves."
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  111. It's from the Talmud!
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  112. I'd rather read Scotus any day over boring medieval necromancy. This is the real stuff.
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  113. Science academic publishing is legit mafia
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  114. Absolutely this - This is the only correct answer.
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  115. He got like 300,000 xp defeating Leviathan :)
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  116. I'm always happy to facilitate liquid ejection...wait....that came out weird.
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  117. Many thanks to you and for really making what I do possible. You are a gift to religious studies education, friend!
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  118. Of course, I was in one of those working class families
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  119. That's the beauty of crowdfunded education. Some folks are able to donate some amount of money and together I'm able to provide university level education for free to thousands of people. It's amazing and I feel blessed to be able to do it.
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  120.  @shafiyaalgiquadra1105  Various places in the HB. It's a literal translation of "מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר" and is a phrase for "male person"
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  121. The Good News is that Brill didn't actually kidnap my family. The Bad News is that the fake discount code in this video (.00025% off) would still be more than what Brill does offer, which is nothing off because academic publishing is a cartel enforced scam. Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store
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  122. Glad you enjoyed the class!
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  123. That was in a building scheduled for demolition on campus. Most students were in there spray painting and doing all kinds of graffiti before it was demolished
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  126. ​ @need2know739  we'll end up making the Borg at some point with this stuff ;)
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  127. There's a nice absinthe colored with them as well!
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  128. Yeah, it's such an interesting part of the whole Jesus story.
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  131. I'm sure the passionate, unsettled debate is acceptable to Set ;)
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  132. I very much agree as a former martial artist and current lifter
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  133. I might still be a nutjob
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  134. Yep, it really gives the lie to any monolithic conception of "Christian vs Pagan" because both were actually (1) internally diverse and (2) a species of one might be intellectually closer to a species of the other, e.g., proto-orthodoxy (Origen, etc., even though he got canceled later) and Plotinus are closer to one another (c.f., Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius) than to Platonising Sethianism. But yes, it was a honor to work with you all - thanks so much for your brilliant exposition of a difficult topic. Here's to working together for years to come!
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  137. The Esoterica Study Guide for the Pistis Sophia & Books of Jeu - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpdJT6HsEif4COq9nDB0BdrTurhyaVL0XeP2NXb-d3c/edit
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  138. Ha!
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  139. Yeah....way, way more complicated
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  140. Be A Lot Cooler If You Did
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  141.  @ReligionForBreakfast  It's tiny anyway - the whole episode will be 'gnostic' texts only preserved in polemical sources, including a 'cathar' text preserved in Durand of Huesca's c.1222 Liber Contra Manicheos - Many thanks as always for your work and inspiration, Andrew!
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  142. Many thanks, Friend!
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  143. well then.....I guess I have it :)
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  144. A WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN! But, I'll be selecting another volume to give a way in the next catalog! Check out the entire Catalog here - https://www.justinsledge.com/shop Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store
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  145. Hurdy-Gurdy Intensifies
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  147. Happens to the best of us
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  148. "Fun, even little Timmy can summon forth a celestial intelligence!"
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  149. Glad to be of service
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  150. The final episode marking over 14 hours of free educational content. If you've found the series rewarding please consider supporting Esoterica by: becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel
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  151. This is a great point and I feel the same way - it's awe-inspiring. I suspect they did all those things, especially when you have access to a city like Rome. The lengths that people went to to get information back then really makes us all look like lazy chumps!
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  152. Thanks! I think rfb's coverage was solid and compact for anyone new to the subject
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  153. Definitely thought that too
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  155. I'm Dr Justin Sledge and welcome to Jackass
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  157. Watch Andrew's Episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOO-xSPa5Q Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel or the Super Thanks ! Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  158. The apparent star of this episode isn't Paracelsus...it's the poop jokes.
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  159. Angela could certainly be the patron saint of goths
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  161.  @TheModernHermeticist  Dan, I really glad you exist - for lots of reasons.
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  162. That said, me too
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  163. True story, example of casual overdetermination, assuming astral causation is real
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  164. Ha! Yep
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  165. Nice reference :)
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  166. That's because Russell was more clever than read in Kant.
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  167. You're totally right can't believe I forgot that one! Have you even been reading Harvey's book on the text. Oh well, even monkeys fall from trees
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  169. This
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  170. Like the ogdoad
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  172. Check out Dr. Puca's episode - https://youtu.be/2Jdy0yUQ-34 Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  173. Consider Supporting Esoterica on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel & Happy 🕎 Hanukkah, much light during this darkest time of the year!
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  174. Thank you for your incredible work! I didn't want to bother you again but would love to have you on again to talk about the text !
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  176. TO BE CLEAR - This was a April Fools Joke for 2022. There is no so such fragment or genizah.
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  177. That's just insane
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  178. Of course, friend! Glad to share the platform with such fine folks as you!
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  179. Many thanks for this generous donation and for your kind words!
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  180. This conversation on “The Golem of Brooklyn” was produced by Reboot in cooperation with PBS Books, which recorded and made it available for viewing on YouTube and other digital channels
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  181. Yep, to me this theory connects the most dots with the simplest theory.
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  182. Erik's Agrippa Class - https://arnemancy.com/product/the-magical-philosophy-of-henry-cornelius-agrippa/
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  184. ​ @BH-wh2vo  sorry!
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  186. The Zohar is known for hyper-literal exegesis, if it says there were otherwise un-created sea monsters they went with that.
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  187. Bingo
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  188. Yes exactly
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  189. But Dan you're just hiding all the quotes about "ReAl SpIRItUAl AlcHeMy"
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  190. Take that Babylonians!
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  191. It's one of those things that has been obvious to me for years and when I mention people look at me like a crazy person. I really do think this is a watershed theory in the history of NT and early Christianity.
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  193. I wouldn't futz around with any such creatures.
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  194. Yeah, it's pricey but not as bad as brill
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  195. Story of my life - knowing is mostly seeing clearly how much you don't.
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  196. Absolutely in our thoughts - Refuah Shlema!
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  197. angelic proletarian ;)
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  198. Yeah, especially in that he knew the 'ancient astronaut theory' was fictional nonsense.
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  201. Y'all LDS folks are keeping that Christian esotericism light on, for sure ;)
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  202. No way, brother ! Always so wonderful to work together!
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  203. Part 1 - https://youtu.be/mTnQ__VSQzc Part 2 - https://youtu.be/GWHLuZgixHI
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  204. Thanks, kindly!
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  205. Yeah, it's just such an amazingly broken process. Saw some of your recent content blow up, good for you! Hope you are doing well, friend.
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  206. Methchild is Mechthild's cousin from Copiah County Mississippi. She wrote "The Blazing Fire of the Cook Lab."
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  207. This time I'm not even sure how's it's even legal - I literally own the music. How completely kafkaesque.
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  208. Thanks - I try to hit the sweet spot of being accessible but also challenging. Hopefully folks can watch these episodes a few times and still learn things! Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
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  210. The best part of that story is just specific all the details are. Really makes for a good bears mauling children story.
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  211. Yep I want to provide both my sources but also further resources for folks who want to study deeper. I want Esoterica to be the beginning of the journey not the end of one :)
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  212. Of course, people often think that esoteric implies non-influential, but that's far from the case!
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  213. Yeah it's a spooky fragment - probably part of a now lost whole demonology treatise - what a pity we've lost so much
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  214. FWIW - if you want to enter the drawing and support the channel, Patreon supporters have access to a discount code for the new book shop. wink wink, nudge nudge.
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  217. This makes total sense to me, but I suspect most people diving into sitra achra stuff lives' aren't so bad, really
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  218. Thanks - no reason why we can't have fun as well! Glad you like the content!
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  219. Ditto - how wonderful to get to know you better! I just feel so blessed to have such a lovely community growing up around our content. Here's to the future!
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  220. Yep anything else is hubris
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  221. Yeah, this is a pretty advanced video. I try to load the videos with lots (both audio and in the text comments) of info for rewatch value and so that folks can get more information if they choose. I think for most videos this will be about as 'deep' as they get for now. Though, if the channel is successful I want to also do some more content that is more 'graduate' level stuff. I am totally open to feedback if the content is either simplifies things too much or goes over folks' heads - I want the channel to be both approachable and challenging and striking that balance is something I'll have learn how to do along the way.
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  223. If I ever write a grimoire I'll include a secret code so people know it's really me
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  225. Of course, the irony is that the grass did not grow in his cheeks because the Romans flayed him alive, wrapped him in a Torah scroll and burned him to cinders for his support of the rebellion.
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  227. Yep trying to keep up both quantity and quality of content!
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  228. I appreciate it - I love this stuff. Always loved historical stoicism.
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  229. That might be bad for my health !
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  230. w h o o p s - yeah, please don't hurt bats. Let the bats eat the mosquitos!
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  231. Congratulations 🎉
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  232. Also just trying not to take everything so damn seriously - thanks for all the kind comment!
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  234. Spookicius maximus!
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  237. They're probably all right.
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  238. At least these occultists are consistently circular in their reasoning
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  240. y e s
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  241. I can't believe such a legend as yourself watches my channel - thanks so, so much for all the work you've done. You're an inspiration.
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  242. Yeah, my parents didn't think it was so awesome :)
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  243. The best way to bring honor to yourself is to bring honor to others
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  248. Such solid content here - thanks! I tried to visit Amarna while I was visiting Egypt several years ago. Sadly, it's pretty much only possible if you pay off-duty police/soldiers to accompany you. Ditto with Nag Hammadi.
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  249. Bout time we got some payback
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  250. oh yeah.
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  251. Oh yes, many, many more incoming!
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  252. Yes, this.
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  255. The dryer, the humorer
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  256. Snap into a Slim Jim!- Randy Savage, Z"L
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  257. You deserve all the praise, many thanks for for your wonderful work. Hopefully we will meet in person soon - maybe even have a glass of absinthe together!
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  258. Yes he does! In fact Dr Crawford was part of the reason why I started this YouTube channel.
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  259. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DEWWWW WHEN THE CUNNING OF HISTORY COMES FOR YOU, B R O T H E R !
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  260. Welcome to the weird part of youtube :)
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  261. Yeah, he was a sus as he was smart
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  262. Nope, same length as always - just listen to more Chopin nocturnes if you want to extend the vibe ;)
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  264. Great topic - will certainly do some things on natural magic for sure!
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  266. ​​ @ogreman81 rabbi akiva supported the messianic claims of bar kokhbah and the other rabbis told him "Grass will grow in your cheeks and the son of David will not have come"
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  267. Kind words....but I could use some gold, ngl ;)
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  271. HaSatan - "You wanna bet that Job dude is really righteous?" Yahweh - "Sure, I'll take that bet." HaSatan - "Hold my shekhar..."
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  273. That Paracelsus to Creatine pipeline, tho
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  274. Mine is knowing I won't exist one day
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  275. uhhh...this might be it.
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  276. Episode 1 - https://youtu.be/mTnQ__VSQzc?si=ZlFe05-gJXImvad3 Episode 2 - https://youtu.be/GWHLuZgixHI?si=vTdxGDarcN0SlNQo Episode 3 - https://youtu.be/xfG0w4k6EA8?si=gOu1carVJcSKXylE Archons - https://youtu.be/hEiwmhQdPPA?si=DpX5N46CSiIJTemi
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  277. :) Thanks so much - if you can't be a little silly in all this then what's the point?
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  280. I hope anyone, from any background, can benefit from the content I make here. I work hard to present the material as un-biased as I can.
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  282. I don't think there's consensus on Job being the oldest book. But no, there are very few cases - two I think, associated with the Elijah and Elisha Cycles - in which the dead are resurrected. However, it was clearly a literary motif by Ezekiel with his Valley of the Dry Bones prophecy.
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  283. Definitely going to do an episode on the Sabians of Harran!
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  284. Yep, that the concept of 'demons' and 'angels' evolved and changed over time is pretty interesting. At least, I think so.
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  285. The secret agenda of my channel is to come up with a good band name every episode :)
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  287. Needs to be....at least that long!
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  288. Bam
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  289. I'm not sure that's true, but I hope I'm effective at teaching my small share of the intellectual pie. Thanks for the kind words!
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  291. Bam!
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  292. Ha!
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  293. Yep, by the medieval period the word was almost exclusively used to describe the conjuration of demons, e.g., of fallen angels of Christian mythology. Though, planetary and astral magic did exist, i.e., Picatrix, etc.
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  294. If I inspire anyone to further their education, that's a total win. I wish you the very best!
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  296. Sounds like re-living the trauma of grad school ;)
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  297. Only possible because of the support and friendship of people like you, akhi!
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  298. Or in the Islamicate world - there were still practicing alchemists using the old mercury-sulfur theory into the 1950s in Morocco. The last known Jewish alchemical text was produced in 1865 on the Tunisian island of Jerba. The French also have a long history of laboratory alchemy.
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  300. It's shocking how little there is out there, right?
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  301. Agree - verify then trust
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  302. I finally firing my table back up next weekend!
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  303. Hi Folks! I had to unexpectably buy a new laptop this week for the channel so any donation support via Paypal https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel or Patreon https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel would be especially appreciated - Many Thanks and Happy Hanukkah - חג אורים שמח!
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  304. Verily unto thee do I say, "whoop" and also "whoop."
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  305. You and me both.
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  306. Yep, I do try my best to always mention another approach especially when it differs from my own. I also do my best to present as many sides of a debate as I can. It's important that the channel teach that debate and not my opinion as much as possible.
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  308. The Vatican Archives are very much accessible by any scholars with a good reason to visit them. Non-church scholars are in there all the time. Aside from some recent papal papers it's pretty easy to work there.
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  310. Anything for these kind words! I just hope I do right by this amazing woman!
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  311. Yep
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  313. Funny thing is that a VPN company reached out the day I finished this episode about sponsoring! Serendipity or something more sinister? ;)
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  314. Getting up at 5am most days is a helluva drug.
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  315. Pick up the Shomer Emunim here - https://amzn.to/4dep4wi Also check out my episode - Study Kabbalah like a Kabbalist - The Ramak's Introduction to Kabbalah - Or Ne'erav - אור נערב - https://youtu.be/WdDp2IZ_oQU
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  317. Full Book of Jeu Episode dropping in a couple of hours!
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  318. Yeah, it's a real ball of wax! Gnosticism can be damn complicated but I hope this content is making it a bit more accessible without diluting it down to me. Striking that balance is a real challenge. Thanks for much for your support and kind words. There is so much more content to unpack and explore and I'm looking forward to the future of the channel!
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  320. Thanks for the support - I'm working had to make quality content and hope the channel grows too!
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  321. Nice - yeah, that volume is crazy expensive. The book I have linked in the description has the Ba'al cycle in a good translation for much, much less. I may do an episode - it's fascinating stuff!
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  324. Of the several personal messages I've gotten since I published this video less than a week ago Every. Single. One. that insists that I only publish content like this after I speak to or learn from some hidden 'initiate' or a 'master' or an 'adept' is also unabashedly anti-Semitic. Coincidence?
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  326. This is the best analogy ever. Indeed, even the right stuff.
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  328. and the bank account lower :)
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  329. I've said it before and I really mean it. These are real metaphysical antimonies and the metaphysics of magic desperately needs a critical philosophy - like needed one 3 centuries ago. Otherwise it remains this pre- critical dogmatism that isn't philosophically viable in the least. Magic went from dogmatism to psychologizing with no critical phase in between and it badly shows.
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  332. Yeah we just educate around here, no preaching
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  333. You really know it when you play ad&d - thac0s and all that
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  334. I think you are probably right (it's hope projection) and I think the hierarchies, etc., mostly reflect the world the authors lived in. I'm sure if they were writing now it would reflect the nightmare of contemporary HR and middle management ;)
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  335. Always, drinking PBR and listening to Weakling demos
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  338. Yeah, and a complex one I think!
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  340. Thank you for asking the real questions ;)
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  341. Where is the inquisition prior to 1478 ever referred to as the "Spanish inquisition" ?
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  344. NB - this is not the first English translation, make sure to check out the translation by John Michael Greer, etc. Though also nb my skepticism that this spell is about Lilith at all.
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  345. Yep, this.
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  349. Yep I discuss this. Torture was universally viewed with suspicion by the early inquisition, so to leading questions. Nevertheless it was used.
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  350. I think you are onto something here - even for the non-alchemist the world they develop is just so alluring for exactly the reasons you mention. I think this is part of the reason they are still read to this day, long after the eclipse of laboratory alchemy.
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  351. Much gratitude, brother - thanks for working with me on this episode!
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  354. I've never questioned his genius. But genius without defect, isn't.
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  355. You might be thinking of Dr. Puca, mines' the 10th
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  356. Dungeons and dragons and Yahweh
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  358. Wonderful to work together on this collaboration, Andrew! Your channel has been such an inspiration for me and I'm just so thankful for your trailblazing work making religious studies accessible on this platform. Hope to hang out at the AAR/SBL this fall!
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  359. All the books I make available for sale are also accessible digitally via archive.org, google books, etc.
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  361. Picture worth a 40 minute video...at least
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  363. ​ @UsurpedLettuce  nope and it's a pity because it turns people off philosophy
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  367. "On this episode of 18th century cooking, we'll be reproducing an flying ointment from Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis!"
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  369. Great recommendation - done!
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  370. Agreed
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  371. Nice - yep, Pegg is mentioned a good bit in the previous episode
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  372. If you are the DM - no reason why they can't!
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  374. Good for you ;)
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  375. I would go harpsichord, personally
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  376. Yep and don't doubt I'll be covering 'new world' inquisition
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  379. I have the same one!
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  380. True Aristotle was an absolute genius
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  381. I like big books and I cannot lie.
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  382. What if I told you I'm actually reading Moby Dick for the first time myself?!
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  383. Yeah, and there something even funnier when you read it in the early modern English. At first it doesn't dawn on you what's going and then you realize "They are asking the angels to borrow money!"
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  384. I try to keep things light but as scholarly as I can - I think one can be a serious scholar and present material in an engaging way. If I succeed in that then I can rest happy. Thanks for watching!
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  385. Yeah, pretty unsurprising :)
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  387. I'll be adding some reading lists
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  389. Thanks for saying so and I hope the material comes through as accessible for anyone. I think everyone deserves access to this material and I hope I'm doing my part to make that possible.
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  390. Same way Christians lived among pagans and Jews. Aside from zealots most people just want to get along with their lives
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  391. I really do want to get to it but, it's a massive text though and the standard (brill) edition is costly. Doesn't get the attention it deserves that's for sure.
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  392. I'd say the state run stuff is pretty tame compared to marketing, especially things like big pharma. Capitalism creates the conditions of isolation and psychological damage and then forces you to pay them to medicate you and a subservience. That's profoundly evil as far as I can see it.
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  395. With the thief stealing his jewel eyes!
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  397. she literally said 'the falling sickness' but, yeah.
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  398. Invisibilia Dei: A Collection of Hermetic, Mystical, and Anti-Magical Works by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - https://amzn.to/3UrWdh2 Subscribe to Dan's channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcluftdk1tuDU71ZdGNpHTA 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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  399. I haven't. But something like the doctrine of signatures is pretty ubiquitous. P largely just standardized it in writing.
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  400. ;)
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  401. If nothing else, it's a compelling enough argument for anyone that's only heard the traditionalist argument to take another look at the material.
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  402. Also, I think all this would make a good livestream convo.
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  403. Being a good scholar means presenting the material on its own terms - not my terms. I hope I'm always faithful to that kind of scholarship.
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  404. Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells - ancient wisdom
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  406. Important people - you know, half the population ;)
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  408. Thanks! The medieval inquisition is really interesting and oddly doesn't get much attention at all despite being really, really important.
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  409. Y A S S S
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  410. Great catch - thanks!
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  411. You are one of the real OGs, and I appreciate you deeply. Please link your editions as you like! Many thanks for your work!
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  412. True story and thanks to folks like you I can get some of these books (though anything over $50 that isn't pure reference I ILL) and present the info so others might not have to :)
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  416. Dit is geen grap maar een prachtige kans om Brill allemaal te dienen als de ware occulte uitgever!
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  418. Thanks so much, Angela! It's so great that we can work together on this platform - To Future collaborations!
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  419. I should have also said that if you do any necromancy in the state of the Mississippi it's always the soul for guitar lessons deal. Robert Leroy Johnson, patron necromancer.
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  421. I should count myself blessed that anyone gets my sense of humor :)
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  422. t h i s
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  423. Write up a methodology and publish a few folios in Cryptologia and you'll be famous! You mind posting your pre-translation?
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  424. Context is King :)
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  426. I think this is a solid read, Z. What an exciting discovery!
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  427. I know it sounds kind of crazy, but the 14th century was kind of like that ;)
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  428. Pour some out for the repha'im! :)
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  429. Definitely
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  430. I try to keep Esoteric pretty free of my beliefs in general. These ideas, texts and figures are just so much more interesting than anything I might believe. But, thanks for watching the content and I hope you stick around!
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  431. I agree - it's sad. I just want to do my part to elevate these important women's voices. We have so much to learn from people that have been kept silent for so long.
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  432. Could be!
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  433. I just love the positively baroque quality of it all.
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  434. +2 Against Tumah ;)
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  438. Sad but not uncommon.
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  439. Yes definitely
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  440. Great chatting, Lynn and thanks sharing your practice with all of us!
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  441. Yep, a lot of intersections here
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  442. Attribute that one to my good friend and teacher James bowley
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  443. Credit goes to my teacher and friend James Bowley for this insight.
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  444. Thanks, glad you find the content worthwhile!
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  449. Yep, more Blake eventually!
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  450. That masonic piece is super important. Also, the esoteric dimension of philosophy is super important. I'm looking forward to making more episodes on it!
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  451. Yeah, people that claim to "KNOW what THE emerald tablet MEANS" haven't done much homework or they are delusional or both.
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  453. ...and you'd be right :) I mean if we can't have fun with this stuff, why even bother?
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  455. Might attract some wierdos.....might not be that bad, actually.
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  456.  @TheModernHermeticist  It's feels so sad in here.
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  458. Doing my best, brother!
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  459. And, as I point out at the end of the episode, when the medieval inquisition was effectively moribund
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  460. Thanks! Yeah I've been meaning to get around to his text. I think he also has one about comic books and esotericism which seems great. I think the truth of it is that very few people actually have a very worked out metaphysics. I worked in metaphysics for years and the one thing I consistently noticed was that so few people actually belonged to one school or line of thinking. They would study Deleuze or Kant or Strawson but when pressed or if I asked them over drinks "What do YOU think of the ontological status of phase sortals, an ontology of pure difference, or their position on mathematical realism, etc., most folks would take a stout dram and say, "Well, it's complicated...."and proceed to talk for ten minutes without once making a personal, metaphysical commitment. My experience is that meeting someone in the wild with a developed metaphysics of any kind if pretty rare.
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  461. No bad at all - thanks for the early well wishes!
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  462. I appreciate this sentiment.
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  463. Yep, people project a lot more power on the medieval church than it actually had.
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  465. ^ this
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  467. My videos might also just be boring
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  468. Well, damn. I'll never unsee that.
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  471. Yeah, it's a whole branch of esotericism that doesn't get much study. That's part of why I really appreciate your channel. Even someone like Suhrawardi doesn't get enough play - it's a real pity. Worse - I think it also causes us to misunderstand a lot of 'western' esotericism as well.
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  472. Capitalism: The Masquerade
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  473. Dat zou een volkomen eerlijke prijs zijn voor zulke prachtige boeken!
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  475. Yeah. Basically. Though the alchemists did also discover hydrochloric acid.
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  476. I hear, through the grapevine, that a translation might be in the works.
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  477. Thanks so much for the kind words - glad to be of service
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  480. Yep, it's basically a 2000 year old game of written telephone.
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  481. I'll actually be doing an episode soon on Maya bloodletting mysticism that actually serves as the glyph for the channel. I have such an immense respect for those cultures - I even worked to learn to read Maya glyphs a few years ago - and their classical and contemporary mystical traditions are profoundly compelling.
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  482. Thanks for saying so and I agree. Also I think it's important to focus in on the world of Egypt (and Africa more generally) solidly grounded in history. For me, I really wanted to get across that not only was Mary the alchemist a woman, she was an African and Jewish woman. The role played by women in the history of esotericism often gets sidelined - and it's still happening, my episodes focusing on women are among the lowest viewed on my channel, sadly - and its important for scholars to do more to put them front and center and show the important role they played in the history (and future) of esotericism.
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  483. Yep band names are our side hustle around here
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  484. Maybe in Italian but I'm not sure but his main commentary is published though still in Latin. But yeah he's relatively unknown outside of maybe Dante studies
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  485. 💯
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  486. Thanks - yeah I always try to let folks know where to get more reliable information. Here's to another 100k!
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  487. I'm fine.... probably
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  489. Obscure humor is always a gamble in that way.
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  490. For instance: Patrick Orbin aka Frater Apep just wrote "It is Jews like Mr. James Justin Sledge that are a good excuse for a Nazi." and yes I'm publishing these right here with their names.
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  491. Yeah, people just assume all kinds of stuff. I mean, there was a Spinoza MS found in the VA that not even the Vatican knew was there.
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  499. I'd enjoy writing the introduction!
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  500. ;) I'm sure we could sort that out at some point, friend!
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  501. Thanks so much for saying so - it means a lot coming from someone like you who has so, so much knowledge. Thanks for your book reviews as well. You really provide an important service for folks.
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  503. I don't even agree with everything I say
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  504. Yep, not your fault but at least - and I really admire this - you were willing to admit that you were confused. So many blowhard people just arrogantly think they have it all figured out for some reason (fyi - I am sure I was like this when I was younger) and just being honest about how confusing it is is a much, much closer position to actually being able to start sorting it out, as much as is possible at least. I'm not saying it's meaningless or non-sense or anything like that but there are serious textual difficulties here and being honest about that is the foundation for any viable interpretation. I would really enjoy working on it further but yep, the time, funding and help I would need are well beyond reach for me at this point. Thanks for your honest and refreshing comment!
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  505. They were extremely pioneering geniuses and shockingly careful experimentalists
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  506. You work in Sweden? Also, do they talk much about this guy around your parts?
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  509. And here I thought that I just make wierd videos for the internet
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  510. It's a worthwhile text but all fair points - it's a lot cheaper if you just read it in Aramaic :)
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  511. Thanks! The printing of the first (few?) editions were done in the shop of Johann Otmar, though it's really a mystery (1) who did the woodcuts and (2) why don't they actually reflect the sentiments of the text and, sometimes, contradict it? I think it's possible that the wood cut artist only has a summary sense of the text (maybe even the first set of questions at the beginning) but not Molitor's answers as the text was printed. Thus the artist just worked off a general sense of what the book was about rather than actually illustrating Molitor's points and arguments. It's be so, so wonderful to have a coffee-table style books with both a cultural history of this kind of imagery but also lushly illustrated with these and other woodcuts of the period!
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  513. I'm all game for orthodoxy as long as it's autonomous and not heteronomous.
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  514. Some of it is definitely ground in ancient anti-Judaism but it's extremely important to separate that from medieval or contemporary anti-Semitism
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  517. Just honored to work with you guys on such a great topic - kavod to you for pitching it. I'm blessed to know you guys.
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  518.  @BojoPigeon  Yeah, 'instant' as in 4 months to learn everything. I mean, not bad if that works out but otherwise a whole semester down the drain.
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  519. They would do that thing where they fight up into the air and plunge to earth and big explosion.
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  520. Maybe!
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  522. I feel the same way
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  524. I doubt it, this stuff strikes me as kinda silly, between the bad grammar and not even being able to keep their demons straight ;)
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  525. I'll put a link in the description for both in a few
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  526. Feel free to reach out to them, though I doubt they'd care
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  527. This is a great comment and you're absolutely right
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  528. Gnostic lunch - just make sure not to feed the counterfeit spirit!
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  530. For me, leg day is either squat day or dead lift day as well - it's a cardinal sin to miss either.
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  531. .... because that was the style of the time
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  532. I appreciate that, especially coming from a chemist!
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  533. I've been threatening it for a while but got stuck on a tarmac leaving Boston for 2 hours and what better did I have to do than speculate about the Abramelin... You know, as normal people do.
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  534. He seems to believe that at least prior to the coming of the law and the gospel they could be. Not so sure about after that.
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  535. def
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  537. Hustle harder as we say in Detroit ;) but I hope I'm always improving!
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  540. and the bored.....and humble
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  541. Yeah, until the real sponsorships show up - looking at you brill !
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  543. No turtleneck though
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  544. I hope I'm doing my small part to make information accessible!
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  545. Just glad that I could get the class out there for free. 9 more episodes coming!
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  546. Wow - glad you are sticking around!
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  547. I seem to have several adherents of Gibblerism on the channel...which I fully and enthusiastically endorse.
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  548. That's why I talk about the past because as Faulkner reminds us "the past isn't dead, it isn't even past"
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  549. So says the political-theology folks.
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  550. It's very frustrating and unfair.
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  551. Comments like this really make it worth it thanks so much for taking the time to be kind!
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  552. The Bay City Rebbe doesn't need any links, she is the link. ;) and yes, much more garble than translate.
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  556. Accidentally alchemy
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  557. Yeah, I was thinking maybe Darren Aronofsky?
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  563. Thanks for saying so - I'm just happy and grateful that folks are appreciating the content.
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  564. Thanks! I don't personally have the expertise to cover it, but that doesn't make it any less important! Hopefully someone with that expertise will start up their own version of 'esoterica'
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  565. I'm for real - Books of Jeu are the machine code of reality.
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  566. Definitely getting prog vibes !
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  567. Opened by some obscure Paracelcore band...at St Vitus, of course
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  568. I was always told that if you can't explain an idea to someone from one bus stop to another then you don't really understand it.
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  570. This was a fun one to make !
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  572. Wonderful analysis on a figure I knew very little about. Thanks for making his works and life accessible! Glad you are back to producing content! Would love a treatment of Al-Hallaj and Rabia and women sufis in general. One thing I look on with some sadness is the dirth of women mystics/philosophers in the Jewish world at this time and that they existed in the Islamicate (and Christian) context makes me exciting to learning more about them. Also, glad to help with the lens - the world is a better place when we help each other amplifier each others voices!
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  574. Thanks - I'll take any excuse to gaze on some William Blake!
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  575. Yep, folks love evil dragons
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  577. Some of them were apparently moonshiners
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  578. Great to hear it! I studied there too and it was an amazing time. Hope you enjoy it!
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  579. 🍑
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  580. If I'm going to have an audience it's the least you all deserve.
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  581. Your username is fantastic
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  582. Definitely Worth a deep dive, but only after pseudo-D
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  583. Absolutely - it's so wonderful to be able to work together on things like this.
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  584. Thanks!
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  586. Thanks it was a lot of fun !
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  587. Yeah, that's about right but Friday at 5pm
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  590. Hope it's worth the wait - and two more parts to come!
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  591. Yeah, pretty key - that whole 'consent' stuff, really, really important.
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  592. Would be so neat
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  593. Many thanks!
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  594. I get confused by them and I'm just a civilian.
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  595. Thanks and yes, it really begs to be a new book. I think it would do quite well!
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  596. He's still interesting just not historically valid.
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  599. It is a wonderful text in that it really gets us out of those binaries!
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  600. Thorn Mooney - @drawingKenaz https://thornthewitch.wordpress.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thornthewitch https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07HNPL35J Marco Visconti - @MarcoVisconti Marco Visconti's Website: https://www.marcovisconti.org Full Immersion Magick: https://bit.ly/FullImmersionMagick Stairway To Heaven: https://www.magical-retreats.com/stairwaytoheaven 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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  601. Thanks for the kind words!
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  602. This is a super important point - thanks for sharing!
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  605. Thanks so much for saying so - I'm really trying to make solid content in this field. Your support really matters a ton to me and your kind comments mean a lot.
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  606. Eh ? Can't please everyone and some people get really upset about me releasing all their "secrets"
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  607. Yep, without grasping the concrete, material conditions which give rise to these things I don't think we can accurately understand them. If we don't understand them we can't stop them from happening again.
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  608. called editing at 5am half awake :)
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  609.  @nooneinparticular3370  yes
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  610. Thanks for the kind and thoughtful comment!
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  612.  @myhandlehasbeenmishandled  https://imslp.org/wiki/Nocturnes%2C_Op.9_(Chopin%2C_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric) - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 - under both US and EU these are Public Domain recordings.
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  615. Thanks, I'm just blessed to have such a wonderful community of creators to work with. And, yes, I think Irenaeus and Plotinus are on the money ;)
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  616. Nah, you're in good company. Think that joke has already been made a few times so far ;)
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  618. Thanks !
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  619. Their fingers are in their ears precisely because they want witch hunts.
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  620. doooooooooooo iiiiiiittttttttttttt!
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  622. Yeah, a lot of these magic users seem simultaneously terrified and crazy bold with this stuff. Me, from what I've read about angels, etc., I'd rather not bother them.
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  623. Yep, they're their own rabbit hole
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  624. You're right, it's certainly a form!
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  625. Yes
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  626. The cult of Guglielma or Wilhelmina of Bohemia
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  627. Yep had a bad cold...still kinda do
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  629. Join Adrienne and I in an hour as we discuss our shared love of absinthe and sample some 100 year old Absinthe Pernod Edouard and it's modern re-creation by Ted Breaux discussed in this conversation!
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  631. ​ @johnnyisdead I mostly listen to baroque and black metal. Most listened to varies. Been on a dark synth and chip tune bender recently.
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  632. Fides quaerens intellectum is best faith
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  633. They're really daring thing for him to suggest but I think it's an extremely powerful and why suggestion - I was very floored by it. Also who doesn't want to see more fantastic art of these amazing women?
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  634. It's a hilarious coincidence - I just got the primary texts in from Israel a few weeks ago.
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  636.  @RockerfellerRothchild1776  It's an academic interest so probably disappointed I'm not a doctor or lawyer.
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  637. Seems like an alchemical substance should get a specific blessing, but shehakol had to do in a pinch!
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  638. For sure, in a lot of ways the inspiration for my channel.
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  639. Not bad, not bad
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  641. An amazing text is an amazing text - doesn't have to be from my culture for me to be amazed by it.
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  642. Glad it worked out!
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  645. Thanks for watching and the kind words!
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  646. I'll have to check it out!
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  648. Ha - yeah I didn't really intend to make 2 back to back hour long episodes but they sorta came out that way.
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  649. don't forget david lee roth
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  651. Thanks, yeah when I re-read it I was thinking "this is really, really not ok" then, later on, he did it again. Wow, some serious ethics violations here.
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  653. What a lovely (and horrible) statement by Moriarty!
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  655. Yeah, I was told this normalize all the peaks trick and it seems to work....not that I have any idea what I'm doing when it comes to that stuff
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  656. Probably my dog snoring :) She is often asleep in the room when I am shooting!
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  658. Yeah, it's that weird "if you study reactionaries you must be one or sympathize with them" or something. I think these figures deserve scholarship precisely because they ideas might be dangerous. Scholars burying their heads in the sand certainly hasn't proven a successful strategy.
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  659. Wow - thanks for this kind donation!
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  660.  @27.versus.Entertainment  Thanks so much - The symbol of the channel is a Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences. It's one of the most beautiful expressions for mysticism/gnosis I know of in any language.
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  661. It's a good pamphlet, but I think he overplays his hand in locating the text as exclusively a Typhonian text. I'll be discussing this at length this week with an expert in ancient magic and the PGM. JSK, DMS.
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  662. But dark like the Botsina deKardinuta
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  663. Macho Intelligence Randy Savage-el
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  664. I am def on team, don't write checks your ass cant cash....physically and spiritually
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  666. Mayhaps !
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  667. It's a super common trope, even going back to the Ishtar descent
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  668. I heard they changed time signatures in Harmony with the Golden ratio
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  669. Such a kind comment - thanks!
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  670. #dreamboatjesus
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  671. Only ashida Kim is the true master of ninja kabbalah
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  672. Bring back alchemist governors!
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  673. It was a fun one to teach
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  675. Yep, though I think we are both very much philosophically (even spiritually) partial to a radically non-instrumental metaphysics in this regard. I'm honestly downright suspicious of any instrumental metaphysics.It's also why I (we) much, much prefer Renaissance occultism (and Kabbalah) over and against grimoire magic along with its very contemporary manifestations.
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  678. I'm team Muntzer as the day is long, but....yeah
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  679.  @darkartsbyadrienne  Thanks! I also try to pack as much information as I can so it's worth people's time. I see a lot of channel where most a video is just people editorializing or shooting from the hip (which is fine in livestreams, etc.) but I really want these episodes to be engaging, welcoming but also challenging. Again, I'm still learning to strike all those balances and I'm very appreciate of the audience's patience as I learn to do that better and better.
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  680. It really is a pity - he's pretty amazing
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  681. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S9VEm3bT4
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  682. By then ai will have replaced online content creation - we'll hold out in dive bars surrounded by faraday cages drinking moonshine.
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  683. This means a ton to me - thanks!
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  684. Thanks, I'm very happy that the educational content I'm creating is making a positive impact. But, I also understand that many people simply cannot financially support a YouTube channel and that makes perfectly good sense given the state of the world. I'm just very blessed that the crowdfunding model is working at this time and I'm able to do this work.
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  685. Thanks - The mysticism(s) prior to the Kabbalah are fascinating especially, for me, the "special cherub" group and the Iyyun Circle in that they are so diverse. In some ways its a pity that the Kabbalah subsumed them all. One can wonder what such a plurality would have looked like if it had persisted!
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  686. Great idea!
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  687. "Swap thy wife!" / "I will not swap her, John-I-am"
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  689.  @jbaquinones  Me and you both, brother :)
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  692. If the macroform / microform thing is confusing think of it like a Mr. Potato head : the head is the macroform while the ears, eyes, glasses, etc., Are the microforms. Your Mr potato head might differ from mine but all are built on the same potato head foundation.
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  695.  @LetsTalkReligion  Yeah and apparently it's getting harder and harder. Daesh, may their name be erased, has gotten bolder especially in the Sinai and the interior is pretty unsteady. I expect - with profound disappointment - that I'll never safely be able to visit most ancient near east sites in my lifetime. It's such a profound loss for all humankind and the tragic and sinful result of my country's foreign policy.
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  696. You too can own the Viagra Trident - https://www.etsy.com/listing/523349549/handmade-trident-of-paracelsus - nowhere do they mention what Paracelsus actually says about, fun!
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  699. I know, it's so boringly inevitable
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  703. Marx first, bolshis and Bogdanov later.
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  704. Comments like this just make my day - thanks!
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  705. If you like my work then you probably like historical materialism more than you think...it's literally the methodology of the entire channel.
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  706. Sure!
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  707. In physics, yes. With a strong adjunct of stoicism by the 1st bce
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  708. I try to be especially respectful and kind because there's a real lack of that in the world, especially online. I've learned that you only get the respect you sincerely give.
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  709. But at least there there's divine causation driving final causation
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  710.  @mko-ai  I'm serious - this would make for an interesting game play system somehow
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  711.  @darkartsbyadrienne  Nope, I certainly not here to play 'guru' or 'master' or anything like that. I try to present the material as clearly and as systematically as I can an ultimately the viewer and seeker has to do with that what they will. I'm not perfect but I do my best to be transparent, neutral, forthright with any commitments I have and try to have at least some fun :)
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  712. Good on you - that's a long road to hoe. I'm also from the South and can feel that struggle. Wishing you the best on your journey.
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  713. I don't even want to think about the amount of misinformation spewed by the 'history' channel - ugh
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  714. yes, this
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  715. Many thanks for your generous support!
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  716. So nice to see you around these parts !
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  717. I don't think anyone gets tired of being told they did a good job :) Also, I don't take it for granted. Thanks for your saying so and taking time to follow my stuff.
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  718. That's a bingo
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  719. You're in the wrong place
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  720. glad to help....but lay off the 2 am whiskey and taco bell
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  722. Learn more about Aramaic Incantation Bowls: https://youtu.be/wyI9m50ODB4 You can find the bowls for purchase here: https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/ The Aramaic Incantation, w/ English translation can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s-dTOknQE7Zi960XP_gvADZMcrbROxB3zjWdC2FRHl4/edit?usp=sharing
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  723. Yep, as I think Faulkner said, "The past isn't dead, it isn't even past."
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  724. I totally share this sentiment and I really honored to share this platform and project of making topics like these - high quality, intellectually rigorous, deeply sympathetic and truly accessible - with folks like you. It's a blessing, to be sure. Here's to many more years of friendship and working together!
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  725. Z, you are a lot of things and a pleb ain't one. Let me say how much I admire you deep love and knowledge of mysticism. Folks, don't let this guy fool you - he's just an amazing scholar of the mystical.
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  726. #hermeticcapitalism :)
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  728. Thanks, friend - you'll be there soon! And thanks for the content you produce as well. It's wonderful to be in the company of such fine folks.
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  729. yep, yearly series now!
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  731. metaterica
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  732. Jacob Lot wrote "Of course, you are a Jew who embraces and tries to merge Marxism so some will not communicate with you not knowing for sure if you are a communist."
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  733. Thanks, the LXX doesn't get enough attention, especially in Jewish spaces.
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  735. Yeah ish runs deep getting to that stuff next week
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  737. It really is a metal word
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  738. It's also worth noting that this episode, in a real sense, can be traced back to our middle school art class.
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  739. This is an example of a text that is way more obscure than it should be.
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  741. My favorites are the ones in the comments doing etymologies on English translations of Hebrew words as if those are the original Hebrew words or some variation e.g. "British" as 'brit' + 'ish' = 'covenant man' = British israelism. Though I love PIE roots, hence my vote that the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots is pound for pound the best little volume for language nerds.
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  743. Thanks - it was a fun one to make. Thought-provoking stuff
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  745.  @darkartsbyadrienne  Raphael: 🤦
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  747. That handbook of his is 🔥 helped me out of a few tight spots
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  748. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Let's Talk Religion's Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbgC920OFbA
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  750. rolls in Dominican grave
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  752. No, we don't have any evidence of that. In fact the greatest act of preservation of the text was done by Michael Psellos, a Christian.
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  754. Yeah, I want to do an episode on the origins and evolution of angels and demons in the Hebrew Bible!
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  755. Though it'd have to be completed - 90% of it is missing, sadly
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  756. Also, totally plausible. I suppose I like the hero myth where the hero dies and is reborn, so to speak, to conquer evil. It's all off screen, so who knows!
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  759. Just how far these guys were able to get away with this whole "I didn't summon a demon but here's how you might, maybe." shtick really impresses me especially when when a woman a few centuries later could be accused of witchcraft at the drop of a hat and burned with pretty much no evidence. Not that we had/have a problem with widespread misogyny or anything.
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  760. Lol
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  761. Oh me too - the questions I have for these folks...
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  762. Glad you think so!
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  763. Introduction to Paracelsus I - https://youtu.be/DqkuvWpH7AQ The Paragranum - https://youtu.be/DqkuvWpH7AQ?si=8vvopsj9NAS21gVM The Paramirum pt I - https://youtu.be/ULThSCD0SdE The Sigil Magic of Paracelsus - https://youtu.be/7bfnKcA3Urw
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  764. That's way better
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  766. Probably not I think - it would be like getting really good at working in the prison shop - neat but you're still in prison
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  768. zing
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  769. Frater David Bersson wrote: "As for Mr. Sledge unless he is willing to divorce his wife and give his children up for adoption I see no future for him...After all, Mr. Sledge in spite of his horrifying wife does seem to be made of some decent material. A female Rabbi [my wife is a rabbi] instead of a Priestess doesn’t set well with us and of course he would take this wrong where we mean no insult. "
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  770. We were even predestined to have this exchange - it's calvinirific !
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  771. Yep, made for repeated watches!
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  773. As long as I get your approval I'm golden :)
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  774. It was Akiva that emerged successfully - he's also the shaman-hero in Hekhalot Zutartey - the Besht is from the 18th century....but also probably visited the hekhalot as well ;) hope you are well, brother!
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  775. At least the nice valentinian one
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  776. She's really a wonderful person and scholar!
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  777. Thanks, though this channel actually aims to intentionally be a bit further beyond introductory level material and assumes something like at least a few semesters of undergraduate level study of religion, philosophy and history. That's why I don't make episodes like "What is the Kabbalah?" or "What is Gnosticism?" Other channels have a done a great job of that and Esoterica assumes its viewers have done some of that legwork on their own already. Of course, as you said, that might mean that I lose some viewers but that's where I've chosen to target the discussion level of the channel. Not every educational channel should be aimed at an introductory level just as not every college class is a 100 level class. Hope that makes sense!
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  778. Many thanks, Zevi. Hopefully many more in the future - g'shabbes!
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  779. Yeah, he was a golem. We're all kinda golems at one point. That's how Psalm 139:16 uses the term.
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  780. Godspeed - tell her I said hi
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  781. It's a floating signifier and its meaning can only be derived from context. Same with terms like logos, gnosis, etc. I wish I could say that things get better in the scholastic context but there is literally a dictionary for all the technical ways that Thomas Aquinas uses terms. Yes, a technical dictionary just for Thomas. And, best believe, anything Thomas can idiosyncrate Scotus can idiosyncrate idiosyncratically. People just don't understand how technical philosophical terms can become.
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  782. Glad you like it! I think the outro music is really super nice!
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  783. Dan brings the goods!
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  784. I have several episodes tracing the development of the elaboratedtheory of witchcraft
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  786. I'll cover them more in depth in the episode on shapeshifting
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  787. Yep, I'll get around to her at some point.
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  788. Thanks, friend - It's wonderful to share this platform with you. Looking forward to working together more in the new year - hope you are enjoying being home!
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  789. Thanks Dante - Glad you found them worthwhile and interesting. I'm really hoping to do a few of these deeper dives on texts if there is an audience for them. But yes, to quote Rick James, Enochian magic is a hellvua drug :)
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  790. And I think that's a respectable shift - it's fundamentally the Ficino move, with some exceptions - but I'm not sure any theoretically rich sense of the transitivity of magic ( e.g., non-natural magic) can really survive that shift without these kinds of antimonies popping up.
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  791. Yep, it's such a bro-show in history that highlighting important women is important.
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  792. Yep, Jews function in medieval lit not unlike the "women in refrigerators" trope - reveal secret knowledge then killed off to propel the plot.
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  793. Yeah I call it "psychedelic reductionism" - it's prevalent in online spaces and almost always baseless
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  794. There is a very strong argument here for serious legal continuity from one to another
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  795. Groovy
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  797. Good stuff and a great guy
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  798. Yep, one doesn't invalidate the other. But the Egyptian stuff is nonsense
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  799. That's the hope!
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  801. I might do an episode like that at some point. I have a lot of...uh...curious stuff!
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  802. I am delighted to hear that anything I create can also help to be spiritual food for the faithful - despite my own skepticism. The story of the Magi is very powerful and what analysis I bring to the table can be beneficial to the skeptical and faithful alike. Many thanks for your kind words!
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  803. Undead undead
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  804. Friday the 13th Part 6, is best Friday the 13th
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  806. I agree, Dante. It's like these women were able to tap into some truly and profound deep. It's hard not to hear the Upanishads, Stoicism, Potinus ("The flight of the alone to the alone"), etc. These women are such profound geniuses and it's an honor to be able to present them.
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  808. Thanks so much, friend! It was a very difficult time in my life, but no roses without thorns. I'm just blessed to be doing what I'm doing now in such wonderful community as people like yourself. Hope you are well!
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  810. For agricultural societies, rain is the difference between communal life and death
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  811. I think the Roman Briton analogy is nicely apt.
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  812. It's will barely help. Kapital is important but still boring AF.
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  814. If I can help it, I will never have mid-roll ads in my videos. But YouTube is a powerful God and that may not be able to stop it forever.
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  815. Get them powerball digits and hmu
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  816. Thanks for saying - that's partially why I created the channel!
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  817. So much stuff, like you need an enochian Ikea or something
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  818. That damn Freddy, always abyss-starin'
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  819. Totally agree
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  820. Ha! That translation of Kant certainly did!
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  822. It's basically viewed as a sustained mis-reading of historical alchemical texts. Now, that doesn't take away from Jung's approach being interesting for other reasons but his take does fundamentally misunderstand historical alchemical theory and practice - same with Atwood.
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  823. I kinda did one a while back.
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  825. It's definitely correct but YouTube would rather wager losing a content creator than being sued by a copyright owner from a giant corporation like Sony or something. For them it's just a numbers game and they don't care about content creators in the end.
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  826. It would be great if overall religious literacy were improved worldwide. It is such a core aspect of human life but still one domain where ignorance is typical! We could all benefit from the further study of religion, I think.
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  829. "handsome" - Definitely not that beaded guy.
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  832. Great to hear from you V! And yes, what a nightmare in Gaza.
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  833. Clive Barker Vibes
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  834. Store tab on the channel page - thanks for asking!
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  835. Two more episodes after this one - not becomes the well runs dry but because I don't have the ability to plumb it any longer!
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  836. That's a great quote - The Active Intellect is also on my agenda. One of the most important medieval idea that gets hardly no attention these days.
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  838. I really do my best to name the good and the will, the weal and the woe - otherwise, I just don't feel like I'm being honest.
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  839. He wasn't lying either
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  840. Yep, burning was mostly a German and French thing. The English primarily used hanging.
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  842. Thanks, friend!
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  843. That's great! I wish he were better known here?
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  845. Yeah that stuff is cringe
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  847. Yeah they definitely have the best costumes!
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  848. Yep, I was kinda thinking the same thing. Though, there are substantial opportunity costs in terms of time involved in the ritual. I'm not so sure it would come out the same in the wash - be a fun experiment to run, though.
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  849. Not skipping leg day - well done
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  850. Definitely
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  851. It is pretty interesting - pity these trials don't get more coverage or that Salem isn't seen as part of a larger Colonial and Euro-Sphere event. There are powerful lessons to be learned from all this, imho.
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  852. Wow thanks for the generous donation!
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  853. You got to get them Icelandic necro pants
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  855. That's a great point -significant blood loss (and run away blood loss) infection must have been a constant problem.
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  857. No, that happens mostly to me I think. @genghisgalahad8465 
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  859. Thanks and thanks for the kinda donation!
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  860. This is primarily based on the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible where it reads "φαρμακοὺς οὐ περιποιήσετε" rendering the Hebrew word here as something that can be read in many ways including the one you mentioned. The Greek word pharmakos can be read as 'cure' 'poison' 'drug' 'magic' etc. The Septuagint, in general, has a kind of rationalizing tendency in its translation. The Hebrew is pretty clear as "magic user" especially considering the same root attested clearly in Akkadian.
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  861. Nope
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  862. Proud to know you and share this platform with you. Thanks so much for what you do and look forward to our next Collab ! Happy new year!
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  863. Having it in Enochian, Klingon or Tengwar all makes just about as much sense to me - it's a Hebrew word.
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  864.  @BannanaOnFloor  you'll need the power - Nintendo Power !
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  866. We'll be opening for Krallice at St. Vitus in Febutober!
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  867. Eh, I'm fine with both dimensions as long as they aren't toxic. Christianity is, like all religions, wonderful and terrible.
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  868. yep, 50s. not 1950's just 50's
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  870. Super complicated and super cool stuff
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  871. Not a bad idea!
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  873. I am highly skeptical of him and his work. But the literature is the literature, for better and for worse. That's partially why I didn't reference any of the occult work on this topic, aside from the fact that it's textually unreliable.
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  875. Thanks, old friend! You know, I also think there is a lot of internalized anti-semitism (often in the form of embarrassment) in progressive Jewish circles about the whole ancient sacrificial system. It's worth learning about for many reasons least of which is that it still structures even the daily cycle of tefilah even in the most progressive prayer spaces. It's also just hella dunegons-and-dragons-y and I'm perennially down for dungeons and dragons and yiddishkeit.
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  876. Thanks for playing along, brother! May your jeans always been apple-bottomed.
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  877. I'd say it's compound interest. @derekstaroba 
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  878. If they reach conclusions via reason they're doing philosophy. Otherwise, who knows?
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  880. It's really an important topic least of all about the importance of historiography
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  881. Very happy this video could be helpful - thanks for your service as an educator!
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  882. It did - Mandaeism
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  883. Me and you both, sister ;)
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  884. This is a much later reinterpretation of alchemy first made in the 19th century and then later expanded by the new age movement. I have an episode about misconceptions of alchemy that covers this if you are interested.
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  885. ᛒᚱᛁᛚᛚ \m/
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  886. Ding, ding, ding - It's a Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences. I was studying Maya Glyphs for a trip to the Yucatan and came across this glyph and was just so deeply impressed with this concept / expression. Hence, the logo for Esoterica
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  887. Agreed, that level of violence is just utterly shocking.
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  888. They're rubbish.
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  889. He probably didn't even know that version of the story
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  890.  @tommytigert5993  Not yet but coming eventually - reading a huge work on the topic now!
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  891. Thanks so much for saying so - I hope the channel helps both practitioners and just the curious alike!
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  892. But wait, there's more !
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  893. Diversifying your asset distribution
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  894. Learning new things is kinda the point around here :)
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  895. Yep, I literally say that :)
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  897. Welcome to the weird part of youtube ;)
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  898. Thanks! Yep, I read those with varying degrees of competency. Though, I will say that when I was preparing some of the recent episodes on the Nag Hammadi material that my ability to read Coptic had just plummeted. I'm going to have to spend some time basically re-learning it I think. Use it or lose it, as they say.
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  899. The alcohol content in this case is very high. I proofed down to 50% and that's still high. But I'm certain that big pharma has checked every single compound in these herbs - the blood staunching effects of yarrow have long been isolated and used in trauma kits, for example - so I'm doubtful this would be an effective antidepressant.
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  900. Onze auteurs worden simpelweg betaald ter ere van hun publicatie!
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  903. Yep, it occurs but it's rare. Same with asherah
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  904. Hebrew Bible laws
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  905. Time to break out the 🍿 and watch all the transference in the comments
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  906. Yeah we only like stuff recorded on fisher price mics and such
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  907. It's the getting of the gazelle parchment that's the hard part :)
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  908.  @dontchewglass  Will-to-Power-Slam <- yes, yes, yes.
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  909. Getting you to read it is the whole goal. If that happens it was all a success
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  910. Sounds about like my luck too :)
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  913. Pretty sure it was just a mesopotamian myth
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  914. Glad you are enjoying the content - I hope it's useful and interesting!
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  915. Esoterica gin, after Esoterica absinthe!
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  916. Yeah, that sounds really tiring. I'm glad I don't really have a dog in pretty much any of these fights.
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  917. Why read hard books when you can just make stuff up?
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  918. That's hilarious - we're just lucky Latin has written vowels, the rabbis and kabbalists manipulate Hebrew/Aramaic in all manner of bizarre ways. ⭐ For creativity, though.
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  919.  @highlonesomed  talking bout tree-fiddy
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  920. Nuts, huh ? There's getting it twisted and there that...
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  923. Yeah, I've heard you can summon them from the Pleroma with some finesse ;)
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  924. Eh, I honestly thought the movie as a mess, at least from a historical angle. Confusing the Maya and the Triple Alliance is like there being Vikings in a movie about Queen Elizabeth I or or a Roman Legion fighting Vikings or something. It was interesting, but the Maya and the Triple Alliance really haven't had their cinematic due, imho.
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  925. Another Venn diagram overlap probably - Esoterica and David Lynch fans
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  927. Study Gnosticism in-depth with @m.davidlitwa https://mdavidlitwa.thrivecart.com/gnosis/
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  928. Glad you think so!
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  929. Thanks for this comment and send my best to your mother! I remember her being an absolutely fire professor.
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  930. Weyer argues that wasn't actually Samuel
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  932. Yeah it really makes a ton of empirical sense
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  933. Of course, my job is to present this material with as little bias on my part as possible to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Thanks so much for your kind comments!
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  934. look around
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  935. You seem ok now ;)
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  936. Will be doing one and the text you mention is key!
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  937. ;)
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  938. Thanks for the engagement! By me replying it'll let the algorithm know you want to see more of my content!
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  939. Would make a good article!
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  941. I mean when Jesus is alleged to have said things like "If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:6)" you can kinda see it coming, sadly.
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  942. Sometimes you get lucky at auctions
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  943. All props to my prophets teacher for that advice ! Glad you enjoyed it !
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  945. Thanks for this helpful and thoughtful comment - Such an interesting point. One wonders to what degree developments in practice are the result of mutual influence during the early years of the church? Just how liturgical practice is shaped by the varied reality of Christianity at this time -
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  946. I mean, he literally married a Jewish woman, so....
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  947. Yeah this was a ton of fun to dig into (though really under-performing views wise, go figure) but yes, the often book us really solid and well-written. The 17th century justs "feels" so, so different on this side of the Atlantic for some reason. Hope you're doing well, friend!
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  948. Delivery - especially with the straight face, is everything ;)
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  949. Such a joy to share this passion and platform with you, friend!
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  950. Hotter take - he just couldn't deal with the fact that HE was getting old
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  951. Yep, Jung is super interesting. I don't have a deep knowledge of him honestly and I'm sure I'll get around to fixing that at some point.
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  952. I don't think it's crazy at all - it's a worldview, and I want to understand it much more than judge it
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  953. Interesting, it's mostly timing treatments like bloodletting with astrological timings on the "critical days." I.e., during the fever cycles.
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  954. Lots of forged deeds and bureaucratic documents but nothing on this scale that I know of.
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  955. Glad you - or anyone, really - appreciate my sense of humor!
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  956. Yeah, Hits different as the father of youngish children, gotta tell you
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  957. I don't think of light and darkness as logical co-relatives.
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  958. I hope not because that's not real ;)
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  959. That pareidolia and apophenia, though.
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  960. Gordon, Cyrus H., "Two Magic Bowls in Teheran." Or 20 (1951): 306–15 - esp. 306-07
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  961. I'm sorry to hear this, really. I certainly don't want to cause anyone mental anguish but I also have a responsibility to present the scholarship as accurately as I can.
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  962.  @DarkMoonDroid  Yep, 7 months old keeping you up at night and then editing at 5 am :)
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  964. Glad it was helpful!
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  965. I wish
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  966. Yep, with a slight variation and now with outro music!
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  967. Same Don Karr that prepared those amazing Bibliographies (and other work!)? - if so, I want to profoundly and sincerely express my thanks for your work!
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  968. Yes
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  969. Absolutely !
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  970. Yep....still is.
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  972. Oh that old inquisition...
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  973. sheeeit, that man would be into AI 3D databases or something
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  974. Yes this ... Finally
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  975. Broicism....yeah, not for me.
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  977. ;) this guy - gut shabbes!
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  978. It's really bizarre to me given the popularity of rune stuff that he's not more talked about.
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  979. This is an excellent point
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  980. My sense is that many religious texts - The Bible, Qu'ran, Gathas - function this way. Certainly in the Jewish tradition the Zohar has this function. For instance, I have an entire copy of the Zohar on microfilm in a special box such that it functions wholly as an amulet.
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  981. Maybe, but quick cash isn't worth my integrity
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  982. Thanks - doing the best I can to make the best content I can!
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  983. Thanks so much!
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  984. "y'all call me or somthin'?"
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  985. Funny - that sentence obeys the laws of logic, strikes them as reasonable and is an (ironically) philosophic statement
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  986. It's great what he's doing with those texts and I'm glad this one interested you!
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  987. Thanks for your work, stay cool and hydrated!
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  988. I was laughing on the inside.
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  991. You can do it - everyone can do it with hard work. You deserve the knowledge !
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  992. Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. But yes, a little long but hopefully folks will find it interesting. And yes, I like my humor like I like my martinis.
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  993. Yep at some point!
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  994. Glad to be producing content that folks finds engaging and interesting!
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  995. Protect them the best you can!
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  996.  @SHAX516  Thanks - especially for noticing my terribly jokes - also abracadabra is Aramaic (אברא כדברא) but who's counting, right?
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  997. I agree - someone can be important and I can still radically reject their positions. What's interesting to me is Mishima as mystic, for whatever reason, I've not seen much study of him in that genre.
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  998. Levack has last trial 1779, last execution 1710.
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  999. Out here on this content hustle ;)
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  1000. Exactly 💯
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  1001. You can still do that.
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  1002. Check out Atun-Shei's Episode featuring Esoterica - https://youtu.be/b_RfoRXJXLI
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  1003. It's nice but not me - hurray for open source music !
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  1004. Probably an episode on cusa for sure
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  1005. Yep, the line between science, magic, religion, technology, etc., is often pretty blurry then and now and I can't imagine (and don't want to know) how one might procure some of the stuff from these texts.
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  1006. There actually is a new sequel coming out this year!
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  1007.  @inquisitor4635  the people writing this book and performing this magic were pious Christians. There isn't a singular "Christian context."
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  1008. Or that moral progress since the middle iron age is a real thing
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  1009. I've thought about that too. We'll see.
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  1010. It's mostly anti-semitic conspiracy theorists that insist it's part of their worldview. It's a simple myth to dispel - ask for any source in the actual Frankist or Sabbatean literature for this concept. And trust me, I'm not defending the movement by any means - Frankly (pun), I think it was a disaster - but history deserves to be told correctly and not just made up by atlantis-aryan-lizard-ufo-dmt peddles of non-sense.
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  1011. Totally agree
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  1013. Yeah..my students say that I sound like a 1970s era marvel villain. I take that as a compliment :)
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  1014. 2 Samuel 21:19 notes that Goliath was killed by "Elkhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite" and it appears that this was the original story with a later redactor, probably someone like D, giving the credit to David, hence the propaganda part. Kinda a joke, but yeah, in the original story David didn't kill Goliath.
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  1015. No idea why this came up in my feed - considering it's unlisted - but such solid work and also famously also applicable to Jewish Mysticism, i.e., kabbalah, as well. Mazel tov on your wedding, much appreciation for you and you work, brother!
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  1016. Many thanks for this very kind donation to the channel - I deeply appreciate it!
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  1017. Yeah in another comment I quoted Patton on not dying for your country but getting some other poor bastard to die for theirs - self destruction is childish
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  1019.  @theurbancrystalhealer6952  huh?
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  1020. Of course, the first international signed by Marx himself sent a letter congratulating Lincoln on being reelected.
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  1021. Happy birthday!
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  1022. I'm gonna go with hell no
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  1024. Great idea!
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  1025. I'm a Reconstructionist following the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, z"l, who rejected supernaturalism while retaining the importance of tradition. In short, it means that I take my religion very seriously while taking very little of it literally.
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  1026. That's great - I dream up many scripts working out !
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  1027. Nice - mind giving the citation? That's a great note!
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  1028. This is the real tough one. On the one hand, the bloods have that cool thing where they can spell out bloods with their fingers. On the other, of course, is the crip walk and that's some of the smoothest stuff ever. I just don't know...
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  1029. Many thanks !
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  1030. And that's why this channel tries to get away from that hype stuff - if we just try to listen, history has a lot to teach us
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  1031. Channel ain't called Esoterica for nothin ;)
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  1032. Capitalism
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  1034. Totally agree - it's super embarrassing. Glad you like the episode!
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  1035. I don't have the slightest interest in mythicism. Also I find the way Carrier comports himself with other scholars distasteful and inappropriate.
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  1036. We literally mentioned that there are deeply problematic aspects of the Talmud. Miriam discusses these xenophobic, misogynistic sections all the time on her Daf Reactions. I've had public discussions of them. The problem isn't Jews not discussing those sections, the problem is antisemites pretending only those sections exist or that they are normative within Judaism.
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  1037. Glad to do my part to make their voices better known!
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  1038. New Goals - Support Esoterica Here - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel Winter 2020 Seminar - This goal will allow me to host a 2020/1 winter seminar on a topic set by my patrons and enjoyed by you! My goal is to provide a reader, discussion group, and 1.5 hour long sessions over the course of 4-5 weeks deeply exploring a text or topic in Western Western Esotericism in addition to my weekly content. This will also support my longer term goal of teaching a university level Introduction to Western Esotericism course next summer! Next Summer Class - My goal here is to get enough support to teach a university level Introduction to Western Esotericism and Hermetic Philosophy course next summer spanning an entire academic semester starting in May and ending in August. We could meet twice a week for lectures and discussion. I would provide a pdf reader for the class along with discussions and office hours. It would be a fully online course with the sessions available to the public as well - a real attempt in totally open, crowdfunded education on one of the most difficult to find fields in academia.
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  1039. People have noticed it but not sure there's any connection.
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  1040. This class is really just mean to be a quasi-undergrad level introduction to major themes and concepts. I'm hoping that as the channel matures and the years go on I'll come back to do classes focusing in on specific areas, e.g., a whole class on the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, etc.
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  1041. Glad that my content is a resource even for veteran practitioners! Thanks so much!
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  1042. Great question. My suspicion is that much more deals with angels than demons - it's just so much more dangerous to work directly with demons at that time. Even angel magic is highly suspect. You really start seeing more straight demonic magic in the early modern period and especially, strangely enough, in France during the Enlightenment. A great text with a wide range of essays on specifically angel magic is Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries ed. Fanger if you are curious! Thanks so much for the support Phreddy!
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  1043. Thanks for the saying so - really just starting out the channel and I'm happy to hear you are finding it helpful!
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  1044. I was also pretty surprised to learn all this given that spiritualism is something that makes the rounds, even in normie documentaries. But, this stuff is never mentioned! And, yes my age really shows in the "jokes"
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  1045. Yep - everybody likes history until it's their history
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  1046. Very helpful and well made video - thanks so much for this. Would love to collaborate on something in the future!
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  1047. It's true. Sad, but true
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  1048. Glad you are liking the content. I'm working hard to provide solid, scholarly material in an accessible format. It's important for me to make this available for folks so I'm super happy you're a fan!
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  1049. It's a self-conscious riff on it!
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  1050. I keep the speculation to a minimum and flag it as clearly as I can when I do it otherwise I'm not much different than any other run-of-the-mill unhinged AtLaNTiS-AyRan-Rh--FrANKism-1666 youtube channel
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  1051. Yep, I do. Email me
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  1052. She didn't write it but dictated it. But yeah, being honest about the source is vital.
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  1053. That would require fraud on my part and I'll pass.
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  1054. ...no, but did buy a NIN shirt there once.
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  1055.  @beepboop204  me too - I think he's Jewish too, we could hang out by the menorah!
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  1056. That'd be the goal around here - thanks!
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  1057. Super fun stuff, these 'heresies' ;)
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  1058. I totally agree. It's so great that youtube makes things like this possible!
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  1059. I basically never dream (or recall dreams, or whatever) so, no - I don't think so. @cc227able 
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  1060. Nice guy, Josh
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  1061. Just mentioned it in this week's episode and yes, absolutely will get an episode!
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  1062. Hi praise coming from you brother! Thanks also for the well-wishes. B"H, they will!
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  1063.  @darkartsbyadrienne  early reprints do appear on the market - a complete first edition? ~$80,000-100,000 ;) you can also get it in modern reprints as well for a bit cheaper!
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  1064. Do you think I set the prices?
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  1065. Given that you're wonderful religion is still very active and given that I only cover historical stuff I probably won't cover it anytime soon. Not for lack of admiration but because this channel covers historical topics and you're amazing religion is very much not mere history
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  1066.  @unclecrown  He also included a lot of pretty esoteric midrash and stuff into Noah (like Og of Bashan surviving the flood, the nephilim, etc.) and PI is a pretty solid film with some kabbalah peppered in. I think he would nail it.
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  1067. I've always liked the ad for some reason - I wonder what the perfume smells like? It would be a great joke if it reeked to remind people that the physical world and its temptations are evil ;)
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  1068. When religion doesn't allow you to tell the truth then it's time to move on
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  1069. Yep, he scares away Lamashtu, hence all those amulets. I even have one as a gob for my pocket watch!
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  1070. Folks check out this fine channel!
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  1071. Hi Tom - I agree with you that there is clearly a relationship of the Runes with numinous power in Havamal - I mention it in this episode. However, my point is that the vast majority of archaeological and literary evidence is that the runes were not primarily identified as 'magical' or 'symbolic' as they have been since Bureus. In fact, I even mention evidence of their magical use in the video - as much as we understand what in the world those instances are. It'd be interesting to chat - feel free to reach out via my website. I know we're on very different positions on a lot of issues, but I'd rather reach out than continue the social fracturing that's very intellectually harmful. Let's chat and see where conversation is possible.
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  1072. וַיֶּחְכַּם מִכׇּל־הָאָדָם מֵאֵיתָן הָאֶזְרָחִי וְהֵימָן וְכַלְכֹּל וְדַרְדַּע בְּנֵי מָחוֹל וַיְהִי־שְׁמוֹ בְכׇל־הַגּוֹיִם סָבִיב׃ He was wiser than anybody else—including Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalkol, and Darda the sons of Mahol. His fame spread among all the surrounding nations. https://www.sefaria.org/I_Kings.5.11
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  1073.  @al3xa723  yeah the punisher icon alerted me to the fact I was dealing with a real tough guy
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  1074. Totally agree, nothing is more insane than just actual history.
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  1075. Sure, but it has currency even among religious (frum) scholars - that's fascinating to me at least
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  1077. We could all use a Paul
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  1078. I come from a dimension called "used to have too much damn time on his hands."
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  1079. I hope you find rewarding work and soon - thanks for supporting the channel in any form. I appreciate it!
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  1080. Dybbuk boxes are not part of historical dybbuk lore - basically they were made up on YouTube. In fact, in traditional lore they can only dwell in living beings, though apparently it's uncomfortable being in non-human animals.
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  1081. Not especially but I wasn't going to drink a ton of it.
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  1083. Thanks, Angela. That means a lot coming from you, especially given that we both share philosophy backgrounds. I've always found it a pity that philosophy and religion have become so siloed in recent centuries, much - I think - to each other discipline's loss. Hope you are well, my friend!
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  1084. Nah, it's just the early modern English spelling (which is an orthographic nightmare)
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  1085. No scholars accept such estimates now - the numbers are now thought to be between 40-60k between 1450-1750
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  1086. I'm going to go with Abba Freud!
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  1087. I second that motion - One really does wonder if any of it is (still?) out there in the Judean wilderness - I hope so.
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  1088. Hold that thought ;)
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  1089. True!
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  1090. Given that I don't think Yahweh is real I'm going to go with probably not.
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  1091. Opening for Deafheaven at St. Vitus
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  1092. It's my dog snoring ;)
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  1093. I've heard good things about it!
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  1094. So happy we can all learn together!
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  1095. Yep as a musician, especially a harpist these Pythagorean elements must just be obvious you you ! I'm glad you found the episode interesting!
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  1096. It's an interesting hypothesis but honestly I couldn't say one way or the other. The symbolism(s) at work in many of the these ancient texts have valences that are truly difficult to understand from the point of view of the author. I will also say that there is no doubt, to my mind, an anti-psychedelic bias that operates in academia which I find to be unhelpful. That said, for me, I try to follow the evidence the best I can and when there isn't enough for me to make a conclusion I try my best not to.
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  1097. I think, at least part of why I might agree with Federici here, is that the proto-Enlightenment view was (1) itself persecuted tremendously until the late-18th century and was a minority movement even to this day if pew data about scientific attitudes / education is accurate, (2) there likely weren't any actual "witches," or, at least, virtually no evidence of them, as you define them, or otherwise has ever appeared [even the cunning folk mostly seem male and where semi-pagan magical practices did seem to survive, e.g., Iceland, most of the witchcraft prosecutions were actually of men! ] (3) the women that were know-how-targeted were likely using a form of the scientific method to produce reliable fertility technologies, including the redevelopment of the caesarian cut thus making them better experimentalists than Boyle, Newton or Paracelsus for that matter (4) good evidence that Enlightenment values never really stuck in the popular imagination thus downplaying the 'paradigm shift' as at least the level of popular imagination (e.g., 978-0226403366) (5) that much of wicca and contemporary occultism has actually embraced rather than rejected 'scientific discourse' as a means of legitimization (e.g., 978-1-4384-6992-8), and (6) Greta is one of the most militantly pro-science people in the public sphere I can think of. For me the strength of Federici's analysis is just how much she is able to use the material data at hand to produce a theory which covers the relevant data points without much in the way of ad hoc or just-so narratives. My complaint about her book is that it needs to be several more volumes - especially looking at the relationship between economic indicators (wages, buying power, food prices, crop yields, etc.,) and trial correspondence - which she certainly sketches in pgs 76-80 and in the end notes - to sure up the argument. To me the argument is profoundly compelling but to be convincing a much later research program into the thesis would be required. I hope another generation of scholars takes up that task. Ultimately, Caliban and the Witch is, for me, the start of a profound conversation not the end of one.
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  1098. Thanks! Ditto on your channel as well, especially on the Mandaean video. Awesome stuff!
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  1099. Thanks so much - always glad to shine some light on lesser known women in the history of esotericism!
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  1101. Yes - I'm going to do a follow up commentary on this text this weekend - there's a lot going on under the hood here and this episode was already getting long
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  1102. Probably
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  1104. Thanks - such a cool text!
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  1105. Thanks! We will be covering lots more material on alchemy so stay tuned!
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  1106. Glad you are finding the material engaging! Thanks for the kind comment.
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  1107. Agreed 💯
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  1108. Me too!
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  1109. NES hard, even
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  1111. I've heard this thesis but haven't seen much written on it. You got any sources? I've been wanting to do a speculation episode where I try to create a kind of stemma for this tradition....with lots of speculation.
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  1113. I plan to! She is a very important mystic and like most mystics, difficult to interpret. I'm not sure when but we will cover her thought and mysticism at some point. Thanks for the recommendation!
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  1114. T H I S X 1 0 0 !
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  1115. Check out the trailer for The Sudbury Devil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbxy91HbtXg
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  1116. There have been some experiments with young people to create non-sense texts with loose patterns that have yielded interesting results. Especially is a person has some Latin, it's not hard to take a couple of 'root' words and mutate them according to loose rules.
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  1117. Make sure to check out Dr. Litwa's Episode and channel - https://youtu.be/OlXP0V6CACU
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  1118. That's really cool - I thought about getting it and when I decided to - it was gone. Glad you got it!
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  1119. The most surprising part of all this is that people put up with my sense of humor
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  1120. My short answer is that I have no reason to think the Vatican is hiding secret texts. In fact I think the opposite is probably true - they are, with exception of recent-ish papal papers - very open to having the archives available to scholars. In fact new things are still being found there - the manuscript of the Spinoza's Ethics from his correspondence circle comes to mind. The real question is what texts are in private hands - unethically and illegally obtained - and sitting in lock boxes out of the reach of scholars. That world - and I am very confident that texts of incredible importance are locked away in private hands - is one that should outrage people. The conspiracy theories about the Vatican distract us from the real gray and black market for important texts.
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  1121. I made the same connection in another episode - comparing a magical text to old school game genies or the Konami code. Totally agree.
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  1122. For sure - I was joking in a pretty serious manner. The 5% nation, etc., are super fascinating!
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  1123. Yep, gunpowder is hella alchemy
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  1124. I'm not one to knock anyone's spiritual journey but it's important for people teaching this stuff to be clear about what historical and what isn't.
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  1125. Thank you so much for watching!
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  1126. Hope that doesn't work out for you
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  1127. Yep, these connections run very, very deep.
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  1128. Glad it was useful - trying to make clear, solid content for the channel and I appreciate the feedback!
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  1129. Hopefully I'll do a bit of both. The channel is still quite new and covering some more famous folks helps to get a footing. I'm sure that Numenius of Apamea - who basically built the metaphysics for the Corpus Hermeticum - will get an episode at some point and most folks have never heard of him. Hope you will stick around in the meantime. Thanks for your thoughtful comments!
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  1130. I'll drive my 2000 Corolla until the wheels fall off. Just cleaned the throttle body yesterday. I need books not a new car.
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  1131. Will take any help I can get!
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  1132. Thanks, friend - doing my best to make quality content!
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  1133. When my kids are acting out I refer to them as mazzikin - "damager" demons from the Talmud
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  1134. Hope it's a touch better than wikipedia ;) Glad you are liking the content!
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  1135. Absolutely - I didn't think this would be a two hour series, but...
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  1136. This is primarily based on the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible where it reads "φαρμακοὺς οὐ περιποιήσετε" rendering the Hebrew word here as something that can be read in many ways including the one you mentioned. The Greek word pharmakos can be read as 'cure' 'poison' 'drug' 'magic' etc. The Septuagint, in general, has a kind of rationalizing tendency in its translation. The Hebrew is pretty clear as "magic user" especially considering the same root attested clearly in Akkadian.
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  1137. It's fascinating stuff for sure!
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  1138. Redemption arc
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  1139. Interestingly, very few documented cases of "wise women" - herbalists, healers, mid-wives, etc. - being executed during the trials are known. The single most common thing women executed for 'maleficia' shared in common was poverty.
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  1140. Yeah and by "dangerous" I mean " Jewish guy who denies it to make money by peddling lies to Nazis" and by "anthropologist" I mean "laughingstock"
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  1141. Thanks for saying so - hope the content is interesting!
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  1142. Thanks - let me know what topics you are interested in!
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  1143. Yeah I guess hell can have that effect on you
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  1145. Why not both?
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  1147. Interesting point - also I just think people like bad guys for some reason
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  1148. Probably a different angle than folks are used to but I hope it helps contribute to the conversation. Been trying to send folks your way on the livestreams as well, hope they are discovering your wonderful content. Should be around your neck of the woods in a few months!
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  1149. I've actually done videos on the beguines generally and another one on Hadewijch
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  1150. The Latin hard vocab wise the grammar...uh, more scary than any demon. And yes, this bookhand - which I think was probably a student - is tough going, especially w/ all the abbreviations
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  1151. Aretology - sorry! Should have put that word on the screen!
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  1153. Coming from someone with your erudition - it means a ton !
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  1155. Did they get the silver out of the tree?
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  1156. Bench Press, Squat, Dead Lift, the rest is commentary
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  1157. 🌈*the more you know* - But I wonder about the more evil-demiurge material? I imagine the more Platonic elements coming from Taylor but I think the only source for that gnosticy kind of stuff was probably Irenaeus (or Apostolic Fathers adjacent)? Surely someone's done this work already, though I didn't see much of a discussion in Fear Symmetry, which is a bear of a read but great.
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  1158. Yeah, it's a pity really. Baby and Bathwater, as they say.
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  1159. I've thought about starting to release them podcast style I just don't know anything about that side of things
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  1160. Luckily I don't!
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  1161. Great minds and all that :)
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  1162. Herodian Semi-formal
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  1164. Yeah, I'm a big fan of facts, data, truth, etc., way better than the alternative
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  1165. \m/
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  1166. Thanks for saying so!
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  1167. It's sadly under-represented despite it being so important. Even Ugaritic is more accessible as a language assuming some classical Hebrew. Thanks!
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  1168. Yep, last known Cathar is executed in 1321. Glad this content is useful!
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  1169. Thanks for the kind words - hope you stick around!
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  1170. Yep, the philosophical underpinnings are the most interesting aspect to me.
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  1171. All dudes downstream from these women. They're like the patristic fathers downstream of the apostles
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  1172. Mijn verontschuldiging was werkelijk oprecht
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  1173. Dead Sea Scroll Exorcisms - https://youtu.be/ChR_YVmwMt4 The Testament of Solomon - https://youtu.be/BBozTcgOFGc
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  1174. Yeah, they really need to hmu
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  1175. Right?
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  1177. I don't think he means Cartesian rationalism here but just in the sense of "being rational"
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  1178. Yep, it's like a here are my sources + here's where to read more....occult reading rainbow, but don't take my word for it ;)
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  1179. Neat!
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  1180. Materialism for me means concrete analysis of concrete conditions. There is simply no concrete analysis of concrete conditions involving the sublime without also appreciating the sublime in its context and for its logic. Any materialism that fails to appreciate the sublime should be relegated to the dustbin of history.
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  1182. Would be great to chat with him!
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  1183. Around here we are pro-homo and thanks !
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  1184. Thanks for rhetorical compliment! Guess I need to work on the pathos and kairos :)
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  1185. Agrippa brings all the boys to the yard, apparently
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  1186. Glad you can appreciate my humor and are enjoying the content - thanks for supporting the channel!
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  1187. Yeah I try to take the material seriously l. Me, not so much. Great to hear from you!
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  1188. Absolutely ditto
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  1189. I live in Michigan. Whoop whoop, as it is said
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  1190. Hopefully I can connect with a chemist at the university I teach at and do a couple of alchemy things. I also have a set of Hessian crucibles, one of which was used - likely in an alchemical setting - and I would like to do some forensic chemistry to see what can be known about what happened in it. So, stay tuned if I can get that to happen. Great podcast by the way!
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  1191. \m/
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  1192. Might wanna not sleep there......ever
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  1193. Because I don't need to take my religion literally to take it seriously
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  1195. Happy birthday!
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  1196. Totally agree!
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  1197. Yep, a lot of academia is a scam
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  1198. Thanks brother - hope the days of awe are doing the trick for you !
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  1199. :) and, to be sure, I'm not opposed to the intersection of psychedelics and spirituality. I'm just opposed to simplistic attempts to explain historical mystical phenomena solely in those terms.
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  1200.  @SeekersofUnity  good thing we love our job - a few lifetime's worth of work to do, at least!
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  1203. Yes​ @thetavibes9021 
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  1204. For the Phoenicians, yes. Yahweh for the Israelites.
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  1205. Yep!
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  1206. Yep to both!
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  1207. If I were a wizard I would not be doing YouTube
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  1208. Fascinating comment - thanks for this !
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  1209. Jesus, like the Buddha, Socrates and Muhammad, props be upon them, share in common having written virtually nothing and changing world history
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  1210. Yeah important does not equal interesting
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  1211. Thanks - it seems, sadly, that even the Dehn is unreliable. Nice recommendation!
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  1212. Patrons of the channels get early access!
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  1213. I think for Dee - and I will clarify this in the last episode of this series - that there is an ontological continuum between sign/signifier in which the manipulation of one has an impact on the other and vice versa especially, perhaps, singularly, in the case of the Monad. So it isn't reality itself but it has the ability to impact reality because the sign itself has ontological power. So we have to have a totally pre-modern theory of representation to understand the project here. In fact, it's neither modern nor medieval but a radical realist approach that I think may be unique to the project of the MH. It's tough to get your head around but hopefully when I wrap this up it will all come together!
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  1214. Josh bless us everyone!
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  1215. You too!
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  1216. Absolutely, I think it's a fascinating window onto the origins of rationalism. For me, I just want to be honest about how these ideas develop rather than spinning them into something that makes contemporary philosophers comfortable. Thanks for taking the time to watch the episode!
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  1217. Glad these weird videos could help!
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  1218. agree
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  1219. Yes, yes I should
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  1220. We can all learn and grow, and glad to make her better known. She's amazing!
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  1221.  @kindredwolves  Nah, he literally says so in the MH. Like, literally "you don't need a telescope" just the MH. It even struck people then as pretty out there, c.f., the criticism of Libavius.
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  1223. Yeah, if only I were such a cool hipster that I could be a crypto-sabbatean
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  1224. Yep, Paracelsus was amazing.
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  1225. I'm so glad to be able to make it happen and I'm so thankful for your support!
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  1226.  @littleandre4957  eh
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  1228. I think I'd actually have practical experience to do that, which I don't.
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  1229. When weren't they ?
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  1230. Yeah, it's like they all live near trees, plants and things.
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  1231. Sorry to hear that but I'm glad the episode(s) are keeping your busy. Wishing you a refua shlema (complete healing) quickly!
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  1232. Still need to get back to you - Sorry about the delay!
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  1233. Don't knock maggot therapy
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  1234. Oh wow - what a wonderful volume you've produced - Thanks so much for your scholarship!
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  1235. It's true about that publisher, man I get expensive. But, the devil is always in the details and it comes to this material and I love getting into the really granular theological and philosophical aspects of it all.
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  1236. I do my best but at some point you compromise the complexity of the subject and I'm unwilling to do that. At a point simplifications become inaccuracies and I do my best to come as close to that line as I can without crossing it.
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  1237. Ah yes, if there were one word I wish folks could reclaim it would be "myth" with a positive valence. The restoration of the concept of myth would eliminate so much cognitive dissonance and empower people so, so much.
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  1238. The feeling is profoundly mutual - looking forward to Zohar tomorrow!
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  1239. That's my guess, יהו is also attested in sefer yetzirah.
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  1240. No, I don't want to monetize my episodes with ads until I take a poll of my viewers to see if they would approve me doing that. I'm still so small that it doesn't matter but I want to work with a democratic principle the best I can.
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  1241. Thanks - I just have so little patience for that obscurantist stuff
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  1242. Yeah, "natural slavery" is just a horrible concept in Aristotle. No it's not clear that any human being actually meets the conditions he lays out in his works for natural slavery
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  1243. I have a hard time reading him because he's a terrible writer made worse by Porphyry's "editing." But yep, he's super interesting!
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  1244. Thanks so saying so!
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  1245. Wolves in the throneroom, digging blackbraid these days
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  1246. I'm not so sure, the traditional account is still very popular. It would be interesting to take a straw poll of medievalists and see where they land. For me, it's just easier to present the traditional account first and then proceed to put forward the skeptical camp's position. I really want to check my own biases when I make content and some topics are more challenging in that regard than others.
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  1247. I'm proudly Southern....just not proud about those obviously horrible bits
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  1248. verily - though he was down with mystical experiences just not as a substitute for philosophy
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  1249. A welcomed nuance, many thanks!
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  1250. I'll be getting to those texts as well. Honestly, that's one of the places I find the skeptical argument weak: explaining these texts. Of course, neither is produced in Languedoc and I haven't seen any evidence that dissidents even knew about them them. But, for a reaction formation, de duobus prinipiis is very sophisticated.
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  1251. Keep the faith and I hope things go well for you !
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  1252. 3 year old fell down - bounced back, though
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  1253. Midianite god.
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  1254. Thanks so much - I really try to present the ideas and arguments here with as little of my politics or whatever as possible...unless it's funny :) Glad you are liking the content. Share a video, if you like, to help the channel grow!
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  1255. lucky priests
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  1256. Ha! Nah, I don't think I could even much plan something like
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  1257. Certainly topics for future episodes!
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  1258. I certainly think there's room for both - history and myth are very important and very different
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  1259. Yep, planning on it!
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  1260. What I was meaning to point out is that I think all miracles are unlikely and we should be especially skeptical of the miracles from the traditions that we come from insofar as we are just a skeptical or more so of the traditions that we don't
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  1261. Medieval Doctors: more likely to kill than cure you
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  1262. And so on
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  1263. something else
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  1264. The context there is II Chronicles 12:16: ודברי רחבעם הראשנים והאחרונים הלא־הם כתובים בדברי שמעיה הנביא ועדו החזה להתיחש ומלחמות רחבעם וירבעם כל־הימים The deeds of Rehoboam, early and late, are recorded in the chronicles of the prophet Shemaiah and Iddo the seer, in the manner of genealogy. There was continuous war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. That hitpael להתיחש (יחש√) means "enroll into a genealogy," so my guess is that it was a Solomonic dynastic annal of some kind.
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  1265. Wouldn't that be a gas?
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  1266. Come for the Holy Guardian Angel, stay for the juggling spirit monkeys :)
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  1267. My fixation? This was a democratically elected course topic. Be wary what you wish for - you might just get it.
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  1268. There isn't any evidence of influence despite about a century of trying to find it. Also, the channel focuses on things I have expertise in - that will grow as my expertise grows. It isn't a bias not to produce content on topics you don't have expertise on - it's just responsible content creation.
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  1269. We gotta have at least a little fun with all this, right?
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  1270.  @danterosati  This is exactly Kant's worry - that philosophy has made no progress. As for teleology I still think that is a very live concept in some ways. For instance, how contemporary physicists still cling to the concept of 'naturalness' for why they continue to seek a model outside the standard model and to generalize the whole question of so-called 'fine tuning.' Like you, I am happy to ponder the questions for the sake of the questions, but - and this will give you a possible peak into my own metaphysics - it seems to me that in so far as nature is it is in one and only one way and thus may be said to obey (or is) governed by the principle of explosion which means that not only can it be understood but that it is both consistent and complete. I could be wrong, and probably am, but my enthusiasm - and I use that word in original sense - is what Hegel called a 'passion for the absolute.' That's part of the reason for this channel, esotericisim - true or not - doesn't get told and I want to tell it, at least, in my own humble and local way. Thanks - and I mean it - for your really thoughtful comments. I am thinking about starting a weekly or biweekly discussion livestream on the channel - would you be interested?
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  1271. If I have inspired an rpg or band name, this channel will have been a success :)
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  1272. well, considering that the Ars Notoria is at least 800 years old I'm not so sure what 'old-fashioned' means in this context
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  1273. I try to take the content seriously not so much myself ;)
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  1274. It's a numbers game. Anything the channel will deal with some section of our audience is likely reading given the interconnectedness of the material. Or I'm reading your mind :)
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  1275. Zero
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  1276. Land is mostly reactionary nonsense. The people who ape him are worse.
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  1277. At least not in the 16th century ;)
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  1279. Welcome - now that he's safely dead we can all celebrate him! ;)
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  1280. Negeer dit knipperen alstublieft
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  1281. #rarecompliment :) This really really made me laugh out loud - well done!
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  1282. Nah, different mystical love lady
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  1283. I think most logicians well understand the limits of logic these days. Logical positivism hasn't been a thing in nearly 100 years.
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  1284. 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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  1285. You gotta have fun with this stuff, at least seems to me.
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  1286. Yep!
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  1287. I was thinking of doing a poll this week to see if folks' were interesting in more movie-based episodes. Will see how it turns out!
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  1288. I'm not
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  1289. Yeah, me too! Would be great to do an Esoterica event there at some point eventually!
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  1290. It's the standard announcement for the commencement of fisticuffs.
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  1291. That hate began with the humanists long before the revolution
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  1292. And that's why religious literacy in this country is appallingly low
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  1293. Do you think the metals are fundamentally a ratio of sulfur and mercury?
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  1294. Same thing some rabbis said about Jesus - it's all pot and kettle
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  1295. Not sure when it started but I always think a little humor can't hurt - thanks for the kind comment!
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  1296. There's so much going on in her writings, it's truly fascinating!
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  1297. Him and his reputation were pretty distinct
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  1298. Eventually - what a putz that guy is.
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  1299. Yep, in the wrong hands these texts - any religious text - can become a long form historical nightmare
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  1300. Well done !
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  1301.  @finnianquail8881  I earned a first degree black belt in tae Kwon so (itf) when I was younger
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  1302. To my knowledge, the Karaites really prided themselves on rejecting kabbalah, magic, etc. I could be wrong but I think they kept things pretty spartan in that regard.
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  1303.  @chables74  Totally possible - even likely - but I've never heard of any texts to that effect.
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  1304. Though one must be pure and take care - don't be glib with the Gib
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  1305. It's odd this aspect isn't talked about more. Though, I don't think you really need to understand the Thomas before the Synoptics - Thomas, like all the 'gnostic' gospels are a bit later. Though, even with Q, which can be kinda reconstructed from Matthew and Luke, I've rarely seen people comment on just those sections. Maybe that's an episode! Hope you're well!
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  1306. Great comment - I'm also very interested in figures that are either in-between those roles or men, as you pointed out, that transition roles in their lifetime. Someone like Agrippa is a fascinating case study here.
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  1307. Yeah, it and the Urim and Thummim, the Ark, etc will get episodes at some point!
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  1308. Maybe!
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  1309. Super interesting stuff and great recommendations!
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  1310. Though, Circe wasn't so hospitable towards the end :) But yes, the ba'alot ov really comes across as kind and caring. It's a shame that side doesn't come through. She wasn't painted like Balaam, I suspect, because she was an Israelite, after all.
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  1311. Why? And g'shabbos!
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  1312. Eh, also I think Lilith is about as real as Elmo
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  1313. Maybe !
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  1314. Ha! You're only about 3.5 hours from ras shamra!
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  1315. This is the way
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  1316. Supersessionist theology is a helluva drug ;)
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  1317. I bet they let women in, e.g., hypatia
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  1318. Oh don't worry - that's coming!
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  1319. And without you so much would have been totally impossible there - so much love for you and your project!
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  1320. similar stories have them finding G-d, non-guilt by reason of insanity.
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  1321. People pray and that doesn't work
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  1322. Or just a high school chemistry textbook
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  1323. Thanks so much for supporting the channel - and for my random thoughts on obscure stuff :) You now I don't soapbox often but I do find it shocking as to the amount of disgusting anti-semitism I see in the 'occult' world combined with a shocking lack of knowledge of even basic understanding of Judaism or even the Hebrew language (much less historical Kabbalah) considering how much that tradition basically underwrites so much of 'esotericism' or 'occultism.' There is a combination of ignorance and arrogance that would be amazing if it weren't so, so sad. At any rate /soapbox - I'm just doing my best to present the best information I can and be humble enough to nuance and change my positions as I learn more. I think that's the least we should expect from public educators and intellectuals.
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  1324. Usually the dybbuk 'knows' the sexual sins of others though, honestly, in small communities like that, so does everyone else - the dybbuk just drops the dimes
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  1325. That stuff is terrible.
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  1327. With our powers combined!
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  1328. Love love
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  1329. They are such important thinkers and it's a pity they aren't better known. There is so much here that could be put into conversation, for instance, with Heidegger. These women were true geniuses.
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  1330. I strongly suspect that these series changed a great deal over the 4,000 years of Egyptian civilization. Even the shift from the Giza mortuary monuments to the pyramid texts, which is only a few hundred years later, is a substantial theological shift. Of course a thousand years later in the book of coming forth by day you have the whole weighing of the heart scene which never occurs really at all in the pyramid text - so it's obvious that there is an enormous amount of religious dynamism through Egyptian history
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  1331. Yep that's why I could never take much of that stuff seriously myself
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  1332. Nah..... probably
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  1333. or just arrested by the tourism police for very silly reasons
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  1334. Thanks, friend! Hope you are well. It's amazing how little is known about these 'entities' during this period and yet how important this mythology becomes.
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  1335. "team" now that's an idea
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  1336. It's really true - Stoicism is so absolutely foundational in this respect.
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  1337. Not to my knowledge - Andrew over Religion for Breakfast did a great video on Khonsu, though.
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  1338. I think it was just the most common animal around them, being mostly a shepherding society and all. Not that whole Exodus story is historical or anything.
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  1339. Exorcisms я Us
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  1340. It's a beautiful day for the ubermensch
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  1341. That would de-mysterify it....
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  1342. Of course, very happy to call you a colleague and even moreso a friend!
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  1343. yes...this
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  1344. It goes back to the canon episcopi in some form
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  1345. Powerball numbers?
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  1346. Everywhere and all people's have deep wells, glad to showcase this amazing woman's thought and life.
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  1347. Thanks so much for saying so, Angela. It's so wonderful to be colleagues on this platform and friends to boot!
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  1348. Happy birthday and many thanks !
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  1349. I'll find one - these spells are like Taco Bell, shuffle the ingredients, smack some new names on it and bam, summon someone for someone else
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  1350. Yeah, that's an involved cheat code
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  1351.  @donkarr1923  Don, it would be great to chat further at some point - would really enjoy learning more about your research generally.
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  1352. Nope, not in the episode - just debunking myths. The 'goal' of alchemy varied widely over its practice and depended on cultural, technological and even personal contexts. Alchemy never had a singular goal.
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  1353. A vision of God while you're still alive
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  1354. Neat! Would enjoy seeing what you come up with !
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  1356. If only I knew
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  1357. It's so cold in the D
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  1358. Not gay, but married to an amazing lady rabbi. But also pro-queer folks and queer Judaism! I hope you can come out safely and when you find it fit to do so!
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  1359. Welcome!
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  1360. Thanks, Ruan! Though, I just want to say that I'm not a Rabbi (I don't that that training nor those credentials) but have an academic background. I just don't want anyone to get the wrong idea! Happy to share what I know so we can all learn together!
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  1361. Probably more like the Roman army, I suspect. That ancient astronaut stuff is non-sense.
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  1363. It's interesting but historically and intellectually distinct from the late classical texts - it even contradicts core notions of those texts. I'm glad I don't have a dog in the fight, personally.
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  1364. Sophia
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  1365. They don't assume, that's what the evidence suggests
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  1366. Allah was once one god among a pantheon
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  1367. You do the conjuration for it ? Hmmm...that probably won't work either - hope you get compliments on it, though!
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  1368. Esoteric Leninism!
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  1369. Yep, 16.....that was a bad idea for lots of reason, tbh
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  1370. The first rule of seppuku club is...
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  1371. I really appreciated that shade personally
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  1372. Warms my heart to hear that, I mean it.
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  1373. No idea what this means
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  1374. Totally agree with all these tips - this is going to be a fun series to produce!
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  1375. Craigslist kidneys
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  1376. The emerald tablets of Thoth are a fabrication of the 20th century
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  1377. Nice!
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  1378. You should pick your major with your future in mind otherwise you'll end up making weird videos for YouTube ;)
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  1379. I'm pretty sure that Jesus had a foreskin at some point.
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  1380. The influence is certainly the other way around - The Beguines influenced Eckhart, not vice versa ;)
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  1381. All sounds real Jesusy to me
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  1382. Via palestina
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  1383. Thought my mason folks might dig it
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  1384. Occult swolism
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  1385. Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching!
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  1386. It could be that their are earlier and it would be great to find a Greek or Egyptian version. The dunes still hold their secrets, I suspect!
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  1387. Great idea, maybe a task for Filip from Let's Talk Religion and myself!
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  1388. Didn't get those vibes from her
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  1389. Hebrew books open 'backwards' to English ones. Ditto Arabic....and Japanese I think.
    9
  1390. Most standard accounts put the number between 40-60k executed with many, many more subject to torture, imprisonment, social stigma, etc.
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  1391. Ha! I really am tempted to see about building a real kerotakis and trying to re-create one of these experiments - without it exploding and....well, covering me with boiling hot mercury and sulfuric acid. That would really ruin one's day.
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  1392. You could be MetaParacelsus ;)
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  1393. They assimilated into the Roman church by the mid 17th century - no inquisition required
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  1394. Oh, trust me. I'm not laughing in the least. To quote Spinoza 'I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.' That's the whole point of this channel. In fact, I literally give two empirical reasons why the alchemists were totally reasonable to accept the sulfur-mercury in this episode Also, we very well understand Roman concrete. It's just that (1) it doesn't make sense financially to make it the way they did and (2) they didn't have vehicles like semi-trucks and thousands of 2 ton cars on them every second. People talk a big deal about Roman roads, concrete, etc., but without the least grasp of the contemporary comparanda.
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  1395. Nope, he isn't.
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  1396. Allah isn't a name, it's just an Arabic abbreviation of "al" - "ilah" - literally, "the god," cognate with Hebrew. There really isn't much of a story there.
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  1397. I'm so happy the content is useful - thanks for your kind words!
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  1398. Probably shofars rather than brass ones but yes horns
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  1399. Thanks so much for saying so - working on the next video now - on the Greek Magical Papyri, should be out next week!
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  1401. Yep, it's a rabbit hole, to be sure. 20 years of my life, on and off, down that one ;)
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  1402. Yeah, I think many will agree 💯
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  1403. Especially one that's faced such tremendous trauma and oppression
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  1404. That's the point - they didn't actually.
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  1405. Nice guy, though his followers kinda go nuts from time to time.
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  1406. best beef
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  1407. Welcome aboard!
    9
  1408. Yeah, hearing people who are 'occult experts' saying "kleh-poth" or something hurts my soul.
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  1409. Paimon is making that Hollywood money these days
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  1410. Ha - though that Latin could use some work :)
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  1411. I am so happy to know that I have never listened to any of those people for more than about 5 minutes, if at all. This video isn't a 'takedown' or a 'debunking' attempt - it's just the historical facts as far as I know them.
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  1413. There isn't really any reliable evidence there were any witches in the first place.
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  1414. Tishby's 3 Volume Wisdom of the Zohar is a great place to start.
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  1415. If it's about Lilith at all, of course !
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  1416. I'm Dr. Justin Sledge and I support this Ravenloft theory.
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  1417. Me too - stone, leaded glass and dark-stained wood! Love love love!
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  1418. Less random screaming though
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  1419. Anyone who says they get the Parmenides is looney tunes
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  1420. "I am the daughter of Fortitude, and ravished every hour from my youth. For behold I am Understanding and science dwelleth in me; and the heavens oppress me. They cover and desire me with infinite appetite; for none that are earthly have embraced me, for I am shadowed with the Circle of the Stars and covered with the morning clouds. My feet are swifter than the winds, and my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My garments are from the beginning, and my dwelling place is in myself. The Lion knoweth not where I walk, neither do the beast of the fields understand me. I am deflowered, yet a virgin; I sanctify and am not sanctified. Happy is he that embraceth me: for in the night season I am sweet, and in the day full of pleasure. My company is a harmony of many symbols and my lips sweeter than health itself. I am a harlot for such as ravish me, and a virgin with such as know me not. For lo, I am loved of many, and I am a lover to many; and as many as come unto me as they should do, have entertainment. Purge your streets, O ye sons of men, and wash your houses clean; make yourselves holy, and put on righteousness. Cast out your old strumpets, and burn their clothes; abstain from the company of other women that are defiled, that are sluttish, and not so handsome and beautiful as I, and then will I come and dwell amongst you: and behold, I will bring forth children unto you, and they shall be the Sons of Comfort. I will open my garments, and stand naked before you, that your love may be more enflamed toward me"
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  1421. When I think of Mishima "balance" isn't a word that comes to mind. at all.
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  1422. Thanks for saying so! And this is a very sophisticated question that I have to admit not having an adequate answer for. At least in Judaism the concepts of ritually pure (טהרה) and ritually impure (טומאה) are non-ethical states that both men and women are susceptible to. For instance, contact with a corpse renders one ritually impure. This state generally means the ability to perform various ritual functions and engage in the full range of social interactions. Like many cultures, it is a system of taboos that have developed over time. For instance, in the Islamicate context, it is my understanding that the saliva of a dog is also impure. The exact origins of these taboos are pretty obscure though I would lean into the idea that they have their origins in (1) the need to control women's bodies, especially along lines of fertility and (2) pre-modern theories of contagion, likely among other factors. Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger is a great starting point for studying these ideas though she did heavily revise her ideas later in her thinking. But, you raise a crucial question and I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you - thanks for raising it!
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  1423. Example?
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  1424. Nice - You can see where they excommunicated Spinoza there and, the Esnoga used to feature wonderful candlelit baroque music performances. Just lovely!
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  1425. It's really a joy to show some love to scholars how deserve it, especially those who haven't been shown the respect they deserve by the academy.
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  1426. Just welcomed - I hope I center experiences and people all along the gender / sexuality spectrum. Thanks for the kind words.
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  1427. Seems silly to me
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  1428. Glad you appreciate my 'humor' :)
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  1429. Non-Jewish Occultists misappropriating Jewish texts and ideas - That's impossible!
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  1430. Yep!
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  1431. Glad you found it interesting and I'm happy that folks are discovering the text through the episode - it's such a wonderful text!
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  1432. There's always more time to learn more - thanks for being around!
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  1433. yes, yes...let the consumerism flow through you :) For real though, thanks for supporting the channel!
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  1434. Yeah, I think Plotinus got the gnostics wrong here. Though I think his point is about the ontological marooning of the soul in this world, which he thinks is metaphysically nonsensical.
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  1435. That's her D&D night - she DMS for Belial, Paimon and Bael
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  1436. Ditto I'm about that lifting life
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  1437. by a sister in law in the other room :)
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  1438. I mean if you mean by right he was pretty vague then yeah but also this is a lot of legend mixed in with history so it's really hard to trust some of these sources. In fact, Thorndike doesn't even include many of these sources because they're significantly later and probably unreliable
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  1439. Thanks, friend and many thanks for all your helpful insight during the making of this episode! My pronunciation? Also a shot in the dark. I basically default to something like academic Latin pronunciation when I otherwise have no idea (like here), /g/ rather than /dʒ/, /ˈoʊ/ because I take the final vowel to be /a/ - thus lengthening the penultimate vowel and laying stress there respectively. That's a general linguistic tendency, but given this language, who the hell knows? It would be interesting to get an expert in early modern English for their input, especially given that both Dee and Kelly would have had noticeably different accents, Angelic speech aside.
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  1440. It very well could be something similar. People often forget just how much the intellect plays a role in so much mysticism - it's anything other than anti-intellectual for sure. Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment!
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  1441. I'll be recording an experiment myself next month
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  1442. Cult is a technical term in religious studies
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  1443. Yep the מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת, malakh ha-mavet lit. Angel of Death (though I often say it malakh hamaves) - I'll have to check out that podcast. Glad you like the style and thanks so much for the support!
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  1445. Edgy award of the day 🏆
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  1446. For what it's worth, we have a cool book on this topic for sale at the bookshop. https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/shop/p/1652-argolis-landmark-work-on-astrological-medicine
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  1447. I think 'the harrowing of hell' is a great analogy to all of this. And, yes, the tidal wave is coming :)
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  1448. Student loan sharks worship baphomet
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  1449. Absolutely - Hegel (and Schopenhauer) are certainly on the agenda and hopefully I will get to one of them later this Fall or Winter!
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  1450. Ramadan Mubarak!
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  1451. Super nice guy, amazing scholar - it was an honor
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  1452. Thanks so much for your support and kind words!
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  1453. Hope you're reading it in the original language because that's where all the hiding is. Once translated most of that is totally lost.
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  1454. I've expressed similar sentiments
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  1455. It's interesting that it's Saturn here and not Venus. But I guess Saturn is more s p o o k y
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  1456. Thanks for this kind and thoughtful comment - more Newton content to come as well. I deeply appreciate your generosity as well.
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  1457. Such a cool mom :) Glad to hear from you!
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  1458. Exactly that's why I blurred it out. It's truly risky even fataly so.
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  1459.  @Frithogar " floating" in the sense of 'not stable' but not random or just context dependant. Think of contemporary terms like "right(s)" or "god(s) - the classical example is "magic "
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  1460. Support like yours makes it all possible!
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  1461. Sure - would be happy to collaborate in any way that would be helpful! You produce such fine work that I would be honored to help!
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  1462. I'm sure it was Galenic medicine and more likely to kill his patients than help them, sadly.
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  1463. Historically there's very little evidence of such. Despite people reaaaaaly wanting there to be.
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  1464. You must not have been around here long ;)
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  1465. Thanks - doing my best and hopefully the channel grows in healthy and sustainable ways!
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  1466. Yep, going to happen at some point!
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  1467. Yeah, no golem stories go "... and everything worked out fine. The end."
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  1468. Yep, I'm Jewish. I talk about Jesus all the time around here.
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  1469. That's precisely why I'm a structuralist and not a Linnaean.
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  1470. Judaism is more about what you do (orthopraxy) than what you believe (orthodoxy)
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  1471. Happy Birthday!
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  1472. Deliriants, but yes
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  1473. I don't produce any paywalled content. Any class or something done first for patrons will always be available here as well.
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  1474. it's called a "joke" - maybe you've heard of those?
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  1475. Very kind words - thanks!
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  1476. "I wanna know where the gold at" - John Dee and Edward Kelley
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  1477. Belief is overrated
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  1478. Glad you found it interesting! Stick around!
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  1479. Yeah these mystics went hard
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  1480. No one's going to educate you better than you !
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  1481. Oh great - which translation?
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  1482.  @AltrusianGraceMedia  I've heard and appreciated them - thanks for making them!
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  1483. Sounds nice but I'd settle for the lesser secrets, i.e., Powerball numbers ;)
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  1484. I'm very much pro-walling up pseudo archaeologists
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  1485. could be, who knows? We don't even know if they did these things. I think some did.
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  1486. ;)
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  1487. I bet if you think for a moment, you'll figure it out.
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  1488. Trust me, I'm calling out younger me as much and harder than anyone else here.
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  1489. I don't know of any historically reliable ones.
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  1490. Yeah I don't get why she's not more widely known
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  1491. Do you believe in the miracles Hindus, Native Americans or ancient Pagans attribute to their gods?
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  1492. When I run out of actual historical hermetic texts ;)
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  1493.  @jdewit8148  Does anyone really believe in 'Yahweh' in any sense that matters? Also, the sacrifice/atonement theory of redemption was just one among even the orthodox camp. Also, the gnostics were even more elitist, they argued there were only a small amount of truly spiritual people who were worthy of 'gnosis' whereas at least the orthodox folks held that everyone could have faith equally. This 'grass is greener' stuff for gnosticism is really just that.
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  1494. Christ gave Peter the power to "bind" heaven and earth, so they are just making use of that power or so they would tell you.
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  1495. You'll really enjoy both - superb scholarship, nb where they disagree though !
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  1496. Thanks again for more engagement!
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  1497. Nah
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  1498. Esoterica UP all night! -Rhonda Shear
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  1499. Glad you enjoyed it - it's an interesting but overlooked history especially given how interested people are in esoteric/occult symbols!
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  1500. Happy early bday!
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  1502. Yeah....whoops :)
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  1503. Enjoy!
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  1504. The Anshe Korach Genizah truly is an immense discovery!
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  1505. You're in good company
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  1506. Because they weren't then either
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  1507. Neat - it's amazing how many ancestors survive!
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  1508. Be sure to check out The Modern Hermeticist's exploration of Stoic Theology in Cicero here - https://youtu.be/AP2ypOkAaMo
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  1509. No - the flaming imagery in some psalms is probably lightning. There is virtually no scholarly support for this interpretation.
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  1510. Super cool - such an amazing person! Good luck with your studies!
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  1511. Pepperidge Farm does. So do I - in the episode!
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  1512. But for real though, happens more than one would think
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  1513. That's such an fun book and Abulafia such a rich thinker!
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  1514. Yep, Kardashian as in Kim....or Kourtney Glad you are enjoying the content!
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  1515. I don't know of any scholars that take that stuff seriously
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  1516. Both from the same semitic root
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  1517. Do it - write a hand written letter to your local librarian. They are a treasure.
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  1518. Thanks so much for watching and the kind words. Though, to note, I'm not a rabbi. Glad you find the content insightful!
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  1519. Idk wild shit
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  1520. It's true though...just ask any Israelite King :)
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  1521. Yikes yikes yikes
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  1522. Me too ;)
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  1523. Need to get some robes sounds like
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  1524. Thanks for watching looks for new content most Fridays!
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  1525. Hell the f*CK no. Academics basically pay to kiss the boot of brill.
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  1526. Yep, at some point both!
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  1527. Man that would really confuse most of a crowd at a comedy club ;)
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  1528. Yep, the peleset / philistines were one of the groups of "sea peoples"
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  1529. What's a good edition of it?
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  1530. Good luck with that.
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  1531.  @hyperboreanarchives7299  Yep, some rabbis in the Talmud are hardcore xenophobic. I don't agree with them. The Talmud doesn't teach anything specifically - it's a conversation among rabbis and sages over 400 years. Of course there are reprehensible things in there. There are reprehensible things in virtually all religious texts.
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  1532. Yeah....all the clocks around here do that...
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  1533.  @SeekersofUnity  ...לא עליך המלאכה לגמר
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  1534. I have some incantation bowl fragments available on my website - https://www.justinsledge.com/shop
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  1535. Which is kinda ironic considering that virtually no historical alchemists prior to the late 17th century would have agreed with him.
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  1536. Yep, planning to get to those texts as well. I may be alternate-reality version of me, I mean you.
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  1537. We definitely get into the astrological connection
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  1538. Thank you very much!
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  1539. Thanks - yeah, a little humor always helps. Glad you found it interesting!
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  1540. We should make a brill currency based on the exchange rate of black market organs
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  1541. Wow, thank you! Hope the channel is interesting and useful to folks!
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  1542. only the real Kelley fans will get that one ;)
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  1543. That's Federici's point, at least as I take it. And, to add insult to injury, there were, absolutely were, male sorcerers all through the ranks of the priests and lower orders at this time and prior. If the church wanted evidence of wide-spread magical 'heresy' it was always just under their nose.
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  1544. 😁
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  1545. Unfortunately Mr. Sepehr peddles racist conspiratorial pseudoscience and his 'work' only contributes to damaging the field.
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  1546. Thing's really have come a long way since back in our day!
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  1548. Thanks Paul - I'm glad you are finding the material engaging. Maybe I would switch to telling people to clean their rooms and get millions of views :) Nah, I think I'll keep working on the esoteric stuff and hopefully the channel will really take off at some point!
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  1549. You are so welcome!
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  1550. I'm not a rabbi, just a civilian
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  1551. Trust me, there will be tons more Kabbalah content to come!
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  1552. ​@EntropicMirror no, not really. I'm just an academic studying this material.
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  1553. We must understand the word 'simplify' differently :)
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  1554.  @Kamkean  Thanks for the recommendation. I've done a few things on symbols. At some point late this summer or early fall I want to do an episode on early alchemical symbolism. But I agree, visual culture and eostericism are really a great combo.
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  1555. Yeah, those ads are cringe
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  1556. I've thought a Zohar study group, actually. Who knows if it will happen
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  1557. Thanks brother ! Content slew this week !
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  1558. Yeah, same with medieval occultists like Agrippa or dee - they were pious, if not unusual, Christians
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  1559. Shared by he-man's and golems
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  1560. No
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  1561. Yeah they were kind of like the Addams family of the medieval Jewish world
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  1562. I definitely do ;)
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  1563. 1 Enoch is much older than the gnostics
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  1564. Yep, and lacan even stole his wife !
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  1565. Eh, my beliefs are boring compared to boner tridents 🔱 🍆
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  1566. Nice - feel free to look up my classes. Though, not so much on esotericisim, unfortunately. Hence the channel.
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  1567. Yeah, I really wanted to mention some parallels but these two episodes just got a lot longer than I anticipated. If only these sources were a little more fleshed out we might have some idea where they are picking up these ideas, influences, etc. They seem to mention a lot of this stuff as if everyone would just know what they were talking about. Perhaps, they did. Further, this literature is often like over-hearing a conversation from the other room a thousand years too late.
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  1568. speaks in black metal
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  1569. Probably
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  1570. I trust the biblical account of ethnic origins about as far as I can throw it
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  1571. He's just a normies Franciscan. We need a spiritual Franciscan Pope!
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  1572. The crucible is like this
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  1573. For real?
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  1574. They got these things called "books" - perhaps you've heard of them?
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  1575. Thanks so much - just want to do my part in making this material accessible to as many folks as possible. Thanks for commenting and share the content as see you fit!
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  1576. Yeah, getting faster as production, etc. I really want to get the channel to 2 episodes a week.
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  1577. Then all the more black metal it'd be
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  1578. I'm pretty sure God hasn't changed since the iron age.
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  1579. Also, congrats on the Latin - That's amazing to be taking it up !
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  1580. Check out my two part history of Judaism and possession for just that answer
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  1581. There are certainly sections in Kelley's hand - Kelley was trained as a notary and his handwriting is much, much better than Dee's. As for the drawings, I'm not sure. I would like the see the one in the Leipzig ms because the printed ones may be woodcuts or engravings by the printer. I haven't read it but my general sense is that anyone on the continent was a de facto agent of the crown - whether they wanted to be or not.
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  1582. Thanks for the link and checking out the channel! Would be great to work together on something - also thanks so much for your work on the Picatrix!
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  1583. Man, the thoth word play comments...
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  1584. Yep, at some point!
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  1585.  @VOCATUS123  So, so many thanks my friend. You really have done so much to make this channel possible and I am happy to express my public and sincere thanks.
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  1586. Ha!
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  1587. He defended an alleged witch and railed against the dominant academic and religious authorities of his day all the while remaining deeply religious. I'm sure he'd be too "woke" for some and too "trad" for others
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  1588. It goes, it goes, it goes...
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  1589. Man, they would get a hella wrong idea if that happens :)
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  1590. Welcome - glad you enjoyed it!
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  1591. Wanna see the 1564 editio princeps of the monas heiroglyphica?
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  1592. Rabbi-core
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  1593. It's the cheapest way to see the statue of Liberty ;) 🗽
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  1594. I met a fella in Egypt that said he was married to a Jinn. Seemed sane.
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  1595. Most religions do kind have something akin to it - the canon law literature of the Catholics or Islamic hadiths / tafsir literature
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  1596.  @Zuperduperboi2  Nope, I make everything available to the public. Patreon is really just for folks that can and want to support me to do so.
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  1597. Seriously thinking about it !
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  1598. It's Aramaic/Hebrew not a language written in cuneiform, which is a script, not a language, e.g., Hittite, Sumerian, Ugaritic, Akkadian, etc.
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  1599. Or Plotinus, Augustine, pseudo-dyonisios, the hernetica, etc
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  1600. Nope, not in my personal experience
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  1601. That's kind of called The counter Reformation
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  1602. All sorts of wierdos make cameos around these parts :)
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  1603. I don't anyone has a good answer. I suspect it's just a bad title for a misplaced spell. If I were to name it I'd probably call it "The Magical Treatise of Solomon to Rehoboam"
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  1604.  @danterosati  Usually there is some mix but the language is highly formulaic. Sometimes I say that these folks "speak Bible" - neither just quotations nor purely original but like a quilt made of both.
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  1605. This is solid advice!
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  1606. There's no evidence of philosophical influence in either direction despite people bending over backwards to find it
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  1607. You're not alone in wanting there to be a link but I've always liked that individual geniuses all over the world came to similar, though by no means exact, conclusions.
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  1608. Yeah - I definitely don't think that. Brian's work is great.
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  1609. This channel isn't intended to be introductory in nature. There are other fantastic introductory level channels and content, but my content is meant to be a bit more advanced and expects that of the viewer.
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  1610. Oh boy...Terry A. Davis has entered the chat
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  1611. I mean it's not hard with this kind of material
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  1612. I certainly think they are experimenting and going about that process in a rational way. Whether that is 'scientific' or not really depends on what we take 'science' to be. I have a pretty broad sense of 'science' and think they are up to something like it.
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  1613. I about laughed out loud it really looks like cookie monster - I need a hi res photo of it to see if I can read the incantation
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  1614. Yeah, those people are revolting Christian fascists
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  1615. Whole episode on the panic - check it out!
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  1616. I don't blame em
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  1617. Awesome, he's a great scholar and we should all be lucky to have him around. Thanks for supporting his work!
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  1618. I am always happy for any support but would never want anyone to financially support the channel unless they are fully able. This content will always remain free and I'm delighted to share it! Best of luck getting back to work!
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  1619. Also, when we gettin the four zoas audiobook ;)
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  1620. Yep...a few probably
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  1621. No
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  1622. Many thanks!
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  1623. You feature in high praise from both of us !
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  1624. Yeah, seems mean.
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  1625. First as tragedy, then as farce as the rebbe said.
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  1626. Who me? Irenaeus? I can guarantee you both of us are biased :)
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  1627. Though, the good news is that the genocide of the Canaan as described in Joshua never occurred historically.
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  1628. Eventually, Frank just isn't that interesting. He was narcissistic opportunist that destroyed the lives of scores of people to benefit himself. F*ck that guy.
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  1629. Sorry not sorry ;)
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  1630. How do you think people get it wrong, in your experience?
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  1632. Yes....water
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  1633. Thanks so much, brother to helping me make all this possible!
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  1634. True story - developers of Superman were jewish after all
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  1635. This is kinda it. Honestly the synthesis was basically abandoned and most Solomonic mage has very little to do with astrological elections, c.f., the total lack of astrological elections in the Lesser Key, which is certainly the most commonly used grimoire today. I have a pretty good understanding of Hellenistic and Medeival astrology, though it's just not something I'm terribly interested in. In fact, I wouldn't even consider astrology to be 'esoteric' in this period. I mean, it was literally taught in universities.
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  1636. Yeah, it proved (murderously) popular
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  1637.  @spazzychalk  Sure - I always take requests. I can't always get to things but I try!
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  1638. Glad you heard about our project - welcome aboard!
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  1639. I hope I don't have to spend much time talking to any of the 'angels' D & K made contact with :) Glad you liked the series and the Kepler point is really keen!
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  1640. I'm with George on this one.
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  1641. whoops...yep!
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  1642. God's coming back from the dead was a pretty typical ancient theological trope
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  1643. For real though....
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  1644. Judaism and magic have had a long relationship. Indeed, the Sefer HaRazim is older than the Babylonian Talmud! So, it seems to me that if someone were doing both they could appeal to a long tradition.
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  1645. It's cvlt
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  1646. Glad you enjoy it!
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  1647. Probably won't, this whole civilization fad will probably have run its course
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  1648. They're great
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  1649. Yeah, I'll get around to that wonderful crank
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  1650. Yep, trying to make the content better and better!
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  1651.  @thephonecalls9856  Any rebuttal from the 'gnostic' camp is lost if it ever existed at all. In general there are very few polemical or apologetic texts from the 'gnostic' camp likely because they just saw themselves as Christians. Though, of course, with a different theological substructure which, by the 2nd century was still very much up for debate. We should never take for granted that the orthodox position was historically destined for hegemony. Take a look at what happened to Origen. Though, I don't really have a dog in the fight, not being a Christian.
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  1652. Pound per pound one of the best collection of kabbalistic texts and very affordable - I think you will find it fascinating!
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  1653. Yeah, probably
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  1654. That's odd - I would say that would be the first place I would tell folks to look. It's a great translation. The Kybalion is pretty much 'hermetic' in name only but since it has become so popular and has now become linked with 'hermeticism' I think it is important to cover it as such. Future episode!
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  1655. Yes. I held my nose and voted for her but she's neo liberal trash. Plenty to mourn there.
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  1656. Yeah definitely want to
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  1657. Tuomas Rasimus "The Serpent in Gnostic and Related Texts" 2007, though what little we know is all downstream of a lost text by Hippolytus. It's not even clear they existed as a sect, tbh.
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  1658. Yep, those things. Welcome, hope you stick around!
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  1659.  @jacobm.f.2451  Yep, I study all forms but try to treat each of them on their own terms - it does a disservice to all of them to confuse them with each other. But, I'll be covering traditional Kabbalah on this channel at length!
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  1660. It's on the list but that text is a beast!
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  1661. Thanks for the support and the work you do addressing this important issue!
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  1662. Oh wow, how have you been?
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  1663. It's only responsible to admit our ignorance.
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  1664. I would only encourage non-violent, direct action
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  1665. I didn't and probably won't
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  1666. Asking the important questions!
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  1667. This is the non-confessional consensus
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  1668.  @amenbanur5432  Reminds me of the rabbinic idea of the yetzer hara and the yetzer hatov (the good and bad inclinations) - in their thinking (and this appeals to me as well) it's not our job to suppress the bad inclination but to redirect it for the good.
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  1669. I'm not quite sure what you mean here ;)
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  1670. There's no man behind the camera ;)
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  1671. That's why I make all of this material free - I don't want any personal circumstances to come between you and access to education!
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  1672. I think Allegro makes interesting points and there is an anti-psychedelic bias in academia. Though I find the argument for much of that circumstantial.
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  1673. Yes, this
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  1674.  @TheBookofBeasts  Yep! I'll be doing an episode at some point this summer on Jesus as Magus which will also focus on other Galilean messianic/miracle workers in the time of JC. Thanks for the kind words and thoughtful comments!
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  1675. I have zero interest in a debate. However, I'm happy to discuss these aspects of Rabbinic Judaism and Kabbalah with a reputable scholar or host. Of course, group supremacy of any kind is morally detestable. There's no denying that such sentiments and statements exist in Jewish literature - including the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Zohar, etc., - and I find them morally repugnant.
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  1676. Man...the psycho comments ;) Thanks for this!
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  1677.  @incrediblemr.e8765  check out the faq on my website for my answer!
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  1678. Thanks - It's so rare to find a film that can hit that balance and I really think this one did. It's nice that the film feels authentic without needing to be overly academic nor too loose with the source material.
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  1679. Ouch...be careful what you wish you, you just might get it!
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  1680. Thanks! Canaanite mythology just doesn't get much airtime, sadly
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  1681.  @DeconstructingMimi  Originally from Mississippi but haven't lived there in years.
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  1682. The big issue is that it's a text by a kabbalist for kabbalists - so it just assumes the truth of Judaism, that the kabbalah comes from G-d at Mount Sinai, etc. It's just a fully religious text and that's both a bug and a feature in that respect
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  1683. I would but I have to be careful - my April fool's episode got a little out of hand so...
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  1684. Yeah, they were all about that peasant rebellion life.
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  1685. Esotericism is nice and all, but Mosins are important because sometimes fascists hide behind things.
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  1686. I'll let Yale know you're coming ;)
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  1687. That's evidence not faith
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  1688. Unless you're from Turkey I doubt very seriously the ancestors that built new-grange are related to you if you're Irish
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  1689. Who knows - Sundog maybe? hella good propaganda though.
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  1690. I haven't seen a system like that but I'm sure someone out there has tried to work it out.
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  1691. Thanks so much :) Me? Jewish (Reconstructionist - I follow the teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan, z"l)
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  1692. Nah
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  1693.  @danterosati  "that his metaphysics has not been." - For sure, I just read a very rigorous defense of scholastic metaphysics including teleology which, as I'm sure you know, is very unpopular these days. But for sure, it's super difficult - perhaps the most difficult problem of all.
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  1694.  @danterosati  Certainly, it could be. The question of teleology was never about us. We are obviously creatures who tend towards self-conscious ends. The question is does nature or more generally does being itself have 'teloi'. And one has to prove that to get Aristotle's final cause and without it, the system, from 'natural place' to 'eudaimonia' breaks apart. That shattering, is to my mind, the greatest event in all of philosophy since there was philosophy. And why I think, modern philosophy, is utterly liminal. We are caught between the totality of Aristotle and the totality of Spinoza.
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  1696. gotta stay away from those dark satanic mills!
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  1697. Being a good draftsperson doesn't make you a good artist, I guess.
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  1699. I don't know of a translation but The Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי By J. H. Chajes is the best resource here.
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  1700. Totally agree. It also shows that the text was translated into Hebrew not from it!
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  1701. I've publicly and repeatedly 'outed' myself as a marxist, both on livestreams, episodes and on my website faq. This is nothing new.
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  1702. She sure as hell tries
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  1703. Oh it was, this was a minority within a minority and rather later in the history of alchemy. 99.9% of alchemical literature and practice was about material transmutation
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  1704. Like I said in another thread - you are supposed to spend at least 2 hours a day studying scripture including the Talmud. It would have been a gas to see Crowley bent over the Vilna Shas studying masechta Gittin or something!
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  1705.  @kheph777  Feel free to share any resources. As long as the comments section is civil and kind I'm more than happy for folks to share and share alike. Thanks for this thread by the way as well. I'm always so interested in how these things are brought to life in our times. It's fascinating and wonderful, really!
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  1706. Yeah, that's the tricky part.
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  1707. This is an academic channel - it's all mythology as far as this channel is concerned.
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  1708. You know, I've described a lot of the (insane) orthodox marxists I've met as basically 'esoteric lenninists' - they didn't appreciate that.
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  1709. affirmative
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  1710. I think that's only in Matthew which he rejected.
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  1711. books
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  1712. Yep, the channel is academic. That's a strength and a weakness but I hope mostly a strength!
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  1713. I find Peterson to be contemptible and his analysis is often misinformed at best.
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  1714. Look, I got a reputation to uphold ;)
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  1715. @A2 nah
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  1716. Yep, and I take our myth-history seriously without taking what contradicts archaeology, etc., Literally
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  1717. Wij bieden restituties alleen aan in de echte munteenheid: guldens!
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  1718.  @thelatterdayarbiter  I do my best to address folks how I understand they want to be addressed. Everyone deserves that basic respect.
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  1719. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1720. Whoops genesis 39
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  1721. Very much, Spinoza greatly admired them!
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  1722. Yep, at some point!
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  1724. Wonder what the battle of Yonkers is symbolic of?
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  1725. I love conversations - always a great time
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  1726. Glad they are helpful - always want these episodes to be a jumping off point for folks to learn more on their on. Glad they codes are useful!
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  1728. Thanks for watching and commenting!
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  1729. Thanks for the super and hopefully I'll get around to more astrology content in the future!
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  1730. I mean at least they're interesting!
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  1731. I am the comment and the reply
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  1732. Did one on Paul. Jesus just isn't that esoteric to be interesting - run of the mill apocalyptic preacher.
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  1733. Not learned in it and let's talk religion does it well
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  1734. Thanks, akhi! Looks like one of my old episodes on angel magic caught fire for some reason. But yeah, the Maqlu is super interesting especially when thinking about the Sotah or the Urim and Thummim. That whole ancient near east magic world is super fascinating. Hope you are well!
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  1735. Thanks ! I think that given his Aristotelian bent and his religious commitments the idea of G-d having a body was not only illogical in the extreme but also blasphemous. So I think he felt, as leader of the Jewish world at that time, that he had to show that it was incorrect, why it was, and provide an alternative view all of which the Guide is meant to do. That's my read, at least.
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  1736. Totally agree !
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  1737. Tbh, I kinda feel the same
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  1738. Absolutely - it great for us all to learn together!
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  1739. I'm saying scholars conclude that Yahweh went through historical changes like every other known god.
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  1740. Ha I'm my own twin brother!
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  1741. Technomancer
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  1742. It's really a pity that the whole picture of witch trials is so poorly understood - the victims deserve better
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  1743. Critical edition displays variation across the manuscript tradition, from that a diplomatic edition is typically generated from which a translation is made
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  1744. You and I know all too well - glad we made it through, brother!
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  1745. Team Enoch will not be dissed.
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  1746. Not so much - it's much more an escatalogical rather than apocalyptic concept
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  1747. All thanks to help like yours, friend!
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  1748. I'm going to go with none
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  1749. Me too - The Dee stuff is fascinating!
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  1750. Yep, in the works!
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  1751. First coming, second coming who cares - just fix this mess
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  1752. He had the larger impact, sad but true.
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  1753. Welcome to the party, have a drink and settle in
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  1754. Yeah this is a good example of how this channel is not an introductory level channel - this is seriously difficult material
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  1755.  @imFurbs  Debates are only useful over reasonable disputes on settled facts. Mr. Sepehr would have to be in the realm of facts to merit such a conversation, much less, debate.
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  1756. It's incredibly Christian, protestant and Calvinist, specifically - all medieval grimoires were - I can't comprehend why people pretend otherwise.
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  1757. I think that it just meant the Jews who rejected the gospel. I don't think it was meant to be an ethnic slur. Though, that sure got out of hand. Along with the Matthew "his blood be on us and our children" really made for a big murderous mess.
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  1758. That makes sense. I was really lucky and undergrad to get a wide range of offerings. But graduate school with shockingly limited. Though I will say that Memphis is fantastic in that you're required to do both analytic and continental work. That's super rare in this country and I really appreciated that dimension of my graduate school training. I think it also informs how I do philosophy now where I really want to have the rigor of analytics and especially logic but also the adventuresome spirit of continental philosophy.
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  1759. yes
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  1760. Yep - I mention that in the video towards the end. It was so bad that editors kept tweaking it trying to make it make sense, thus only further removing readers from the original "Hermetic" philosophy. I have a copy of the Pimander from 1577 that is all over the place.
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  1761. I only pull the Gibbler material when it's a special episode. Scotus deserves it.
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  1762. Yeah I went there a few years ago - it really is. Ostia really is great and just a tram trip from Rome - you can even hit the beach in one day!
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  1763. @EntropicMirror nope
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  1764. Mr. Peterson, an honor to have you comment so kindly on the channel. It would be great to sit down for a conversation for the channel if you're interested. Again, many thanks for all your work over the years.
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  1765. This is a wonderful homology
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  1766. It's the right thing to do - seems to me - to call a people and their language what native people call it, as best we can to show a modicum of respect to folks that have been systematically denied it by settlers for centuries.
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  1767. \m/
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  1768. I was definitely thinking something along those lines especially with some of the more radical beguine mysticism
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  1769. Except his name was שלמה and sun and moon are שמש וירח
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  1770. I'm if the camp that dee also played into all this as well, especially through financial pressure on the Kelly family. Complicated for sure.
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  1771. לא אחורה, לא תנ"ך
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  1772. Nah, that seems silly. This stuff is interesting and fun, why so serious?
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  1773. Yeah, kinda.
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  1774. I'd just try to convince doctors to wash their hands or try to develop penicillin or something a few centuries early
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  1775. She did and we recently did an episode together on astrology in early Judaism and Islam on the channel. Check it out!
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  1776. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen ( Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings. ) - Heine
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  1777.  @changer1285  Just doing my best to be honest and analytical.
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  1778. I would personally recommend a Pinot Noir, Dark Chocolate and a pact with the ancient dark ones who name is beyond any human utterance.
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  1779. Eh, it's a job....an interesting one, though. Thanks for the kind words!
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  1780. I'm not sure - the evidence certainly isn't there to support that he was.
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  1781. Yep, I'll get to those, but they are otherwise better known.
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  1782. Yeah, they're fun to learn to open. Then forget how to open them, put something nice inside them then leave them for a year. Memory fades and it's a brand new puzzle.
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  1783. Oh, they won't. Gurus never let facts get in the way of their Truth™
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  1784. might be doing an intro to Böhmian theosophy super soon!
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  1785. I think you capture it well and your point about the communal nature of learning is key. We often have the idea of the magus alone in their study unlocking the secrets, etc., but especially in Judaism that process is a symphony. Hope the episode was helpful!
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  1786. Glad you enjoyed the video - hope you learned something new!
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  1787. It's from אחד I think " the united" -יחד
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  1788. It's really never for me to reject a text or anything's spiritual importance - I just want to provide the best and most honest analysis I can and be honest as I learn more and think more deeply about these topics.
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  1789. It's Thoth and it's not an idol. Also, I'm not a rabbi, just a civilian.
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  1790. :) The Liber Hermetis is different from the CH - It's a later, medieval work mostly about astrology/alchemy. I'm not even sure there is a modern edition. Ha - Good question on the Summa! It would be a fun short class to teach!
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  1791. That'd be great!
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  1792. Again, I don't think this means that a Jungian or Eliadean analysis is worthless, just that's ahistorical. I probably appreciate a mediaeval book of hours for very different reasons than the people that composed it, the people that it was composed for and the reasons for which it was composed - that doesn't mean that my appreciation and meaning are nonsense or worthless. It's when Jung or Eliade - or really, their followers, claim that they have found the interpretation of alchemy is where the problem definitely comes in, i.e., comments like "alchemy was never about transforming metals - it was always about inner transformation." This is just flatly wrong. But finding a Jungian or Eliadean interpretation meaningful is fine, as long as its (1) not at the cost of actual history and (2) not pretending to be the interpretation.
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  1793. Not to my knowledge but this is a good point - the templars were murdered to avoid paying a debt to them
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  1794. edgey young person. That kinda thing was popular at the time too.
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  1795.  @ireallylovecilantro  I think the typical translations online are pretty good. I prefer the Taussig, etc., translation, especially because of their attention to gender issues in the text.
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  1796. I just realized that not everyone can afford this and the least I can do is make the text totally open source.
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  1797. And his golden shoes!
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  1798. I reached out to him and unfortunately he's unable to do it.
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  1799. I've never been ambiguous about my politics. As you can see on my website FAQ, I'm a dinosaur structural marxist
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  1800. Thanks, just trying to make some cool stuff I don't see anywhere else
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  1801. Yep, one coming up!
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  1802. It's a fantastic book and I really do hope it gets a second edition
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  1803.  @samuelshepard  y e s
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  1804. I'm not so sure about (1) but I will take a look at my readers and see if I see anything. As for (2), yes, they are called tzaddikim and some sects of Judaism, especially in the Hasidic world, are very hip to them.
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  1805. He gives a dozen reasons why the shin but mostly it's just Jesus
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  1806. Chemically, they are nearly identical. You can check out the 2008 study to basically confirm that. Though, some pre-ban marques did use a very high quality wine base and the herb cultivars were a bit better in some respects but again, chemically, they are basically identical. The Jade line by Ted Breaux is very nice and the Grön Opal absinthe is highly recommended.
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  1808. Fair point! Though I was thinking of sheol really going extinct. I don't think really anyone really believes in the old Israelite concept any longer.
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  1809. Such a kind comment! Thanks so much it really warms my heart and I appreciate it deeply.
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  1810. Huh?
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  1811. Islamicate - this refers to the larger cultural world in which Islam too root and covers Non-Arabic and Non-Muslim folks from that milieu
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  1812. This theory isn't accepted by most scholars
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  1813. Or just mythology
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  1814. Of course, it's a great little volume!
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  1815. I'm guessing you didn't watch the video?
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  1816. Patrons have early access
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  1817. Yeah, Kabbalah Tuesdays for a couple months!
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  1818. Yeah, it's howling and cold out there - stay warm, friend!
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  1819. Thanks, Denis - it's so much fun to poke around in these really obscure areas of the history of esotericism. It just goes to show that history hasn't given up all its secrets!
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  1820. It's literally on my FAQ and numerous content I've made.
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  1821. It is really lovely and reminds me of another such hymn that actually survives into contemporary Jewish liturgy from the Merkabah mystics "El Adon." But no, this seems to be a composite text and I don't know that it survives beyond Sefer HaRazim. Such composite texts are not uncommon through the middle ages. There is even an early Christian re-telling of the birth of Jesus composed entirely of quotations from the works of Virgil!
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  1822. ^-This guy :)
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  1824. At some point, that episode would be a minefield :)
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  1825.  @evans808274mc9la  better, though not great. Luckily, I'm not getting any brain fog (so far as I can tell) and I'm mostly recovered.
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  1826. Those are ten thousand year older than this text.
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  1827. Way more
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  1828. Yes. That's basically always bad news.
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  1829. Happy birthday !
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  1830. The untitled text is interesting but very resistant to summary because it's kinda a summary
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  1831. There is a lot of debate about the shoresh (root) of the word Ov here. I am doubtful that it shares the same root as 'ab' for a few reasons. I suspect that this was one device now lost that the baal(at) used as a kind of focus for their magic. What exactly isn't clear and baring some new evidence likely won't be.
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  1832. Nah my colleague Filip over at let's talk religion has Sufism on lock - check out his wonderful channel!
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  1833. Thanks it's angering how the institutions mistreat scholars
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  1834. This explains why I think the world is whiskey and old books
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  1835. No, I think it's a very reasonable question
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  1836.  @ktkatte6791  It's true! It's a pity this stuff goes so understudied and when it does, it's always presented as so dry and 'academic' in the worst sense of that word. The material deserves so much better.
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  1837.  @ktkatte6791  oh yeah you should read Martin Luther - he is constantly calling his opponents all manner of colorful names
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  1838. Stating scholarship - there's no "scripture" here, this is an academic channel
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  1839. \m/
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  1840. It's only hidden in relation to the fact that keter isn't really sefira in a technical sense
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  1841. You are on the money :) Real respect to those folks!
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  1842. I mean we gotta have some fun with this stuff, right?
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  1843. Really appreciate this comment!
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  1844. There are very specific prohibitions laid out in the Talmud and the codes none of which, to my knowledge, am I violating by discussing these topics. Also, I'm not Haredi so I don't have a radically strict interpretations of halakhah (Jewish Law) anyhow.
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  1845. Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/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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  1846. Jesus had very little institutional attention unlike for instance Honi. He was executed simply as an insurrectionist and was otherwise institutionally unremarkable.
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  1847. This all happened nearly a millennium before the rise of gnosticism
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  1848. There's no evidence of Chinese influence on European alchemy.
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  1849. Where do you think the Rosicrucians got it from? They were militant protestants.
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  1850. You got a real liberal sense of "close" ;)
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  1851.  @silentobserver888  Neat - make me a super minor character :)
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  1852. Yep, I'll get to it eventually!
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  1853. Thanks Jorge - It's such an interesting text. Glad you liked the episode!
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  1854. Or in Austin....put some crystals and stuff in there too
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  1855. All you have to lose are your wings!
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  1856. Wonderful quote, thanks !
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  1857. wow, that's a compliment! Thanks!
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  1858. Thanks - There's no evidence of any 'eastern' influence on Parmenides but I can't speak on Vedanta as I'm no expert there.
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  1859. Good for you, seriously!
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  1860. I was naming a stereotype not describing Hildegard
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  1861.  @danterosati  I guess my argument is that while a technological paradigm shift has occurred I'm not sure a worldview one has - most people have extremely limited scientific literacy, if studies show anything. I think most people live with radically modern tech but only semi-modern scientific attitudes. I would also count Blavatsky as a radical modernist here as well. Yep, people hate Greta but precisely for her insistence on modernity revealing where the mentality of the other side is :) Re: Hildegard, probably if she were living in 1550 and not 1150., I agree. Beguines were already being burned by the early 14th century! Though, I have yet to see a single trial transcript where the 'evidence' was knowledge of herbalism, scrying, folk-craft, use of crystals, etc. I'm actually pouring over transcripts and demonologies for a public lecture on witchcraft in October and it's amazing how (1) uniform the accounts are by 1550 onward and (2) how the image of the persecuted wise woman doesn't seem to surface much, at least from the records despite that common belief now. History is usually inconvenient for those living after it :) Thanks for your thoughtful comments, Dante. Your erudition and thoughtfulness is a blessing!
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  1862. One is the traditional Jewish Kabbalah and the other is the more recent Hermetic Qabbalah tradition.
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  1863. The Zohar is difficult for a whole other set of reasons
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  1864. Yeah....that, it's that.
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  1865.  @franciscoflores3231  Not really - the only main difference is being able to have direct access to me...FWIW and monthly Zoom hangouts. Patreon is basically if you feel that supporting making the production of this kind of content and having direct access to me and early access to episodes.
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  1866. It's funny I didn't notice it at the time but sure enough!
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  1867. Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store
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  1868. This was a fun one to put together!
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  1869. Yep possible but it's that evidence part that's missing
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  1870. Exactly redeemed even
    7
  1871. There's a beardless me hosting exoterica
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  1872. The X is just a variable at this point
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  1873.  @bloglivethehighve  Maybe I'll do an episode on it at some point!
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  1874. That definitely isn't what rfb is.
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  1875. My life is has been one 'hold my beer' moment after another :) Would be great to work together with you all over at the podcast at some point as well!
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  1876. Yep, when we get to Lurianic Kabbalah
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  1877. Thanks for the kind words !
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  1878. Always struck me as super odd too - hence the video
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  1879. Thanks, Friend. Yeah I want to eventually do something on "Marx and Monsters" that despite his materialism he seems downright obsessed with monsters. Maybe this Halloween - The Specter of Marx!
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  1880. Scribes didn't practice on expensive vellum
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  1881. The text is so brief and enigmatic that I don't think any such conclusions can be actually drawn
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  1882. Hope you enjoy the series!
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  1883. that's a bingo
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  1884. He likes Hebrew but his Hebrew was pretty weak compared to Reuchlin or Postel
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  1885. for patrons!
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  1886. Not almost. Definitely.
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  1887. Yep, that's a lot closer to the truth. I was also lucky to dodge this eliade jung bullet
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  1888. Wow - high praise - thanks!
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  1889. Oh, this I know
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  1890. nah
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  1891. Absolutely - as scholars we take historical texts seriously without taking them literally.
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  1892. Interesting theory!
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  1893. Someone could make an "esoterica out of context" supercut - that'd be really strange
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  1894. The struggle is real, friend :)
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  1895. I think they are basically only made there - even to this day.
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  1896. I'd have zero interest in discussing anything with Peterson
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  1897. Still, super neat work!
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  1898. Yep, I know a few Anats
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  1899. That honestly wasn't meant to be a flex - I need to rehouse one of them but can't decide which !
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  1900. A great place to start is Segal's Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism - 978-1602585492 along with the studies mentioned in this episode.
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  1901. Gotta make that gold potable somehow
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  1902. I hear bad things about that Nazism stuff
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  1903. Very useful - the esotericism to 'trad' life to alt right to fascist pipeline is super important to understand - please do that work
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  1904. Yeah, it's reliable.
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  1905. I used to think that too but we find no evidence of that until much later.
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  1906. Yes, much more so. In orthodox Christianity everyone was capable of salvation, on most forms of gnosticism only a tiny elect were.
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  1907. Thanks, and, at least in these text up to around the 17th century, literally - metals into other metals.
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  1908.  @dimitribazos1532  Thanks 7 months this week - Full of smiles!
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  1909. Yep super interesting stuff !
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  1910. Thanks! I always enjoy these deeper dives. The texts are just so, so rich.
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  1911. Since there was probably only a 'standard' version of the text very late this is unlikely. Even the Hebrew text of the Torah that was used for the Septuagint doesn't agree with the text as we have it and variations in spelling (plene vs 'defective') abound in the ms tradition. Also the vowel marks (along with other sigla, including other systems of sigla, like the Babylonian system) don't interfere with the consonantal text so much.
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  1912. You win !
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  1913. Planescape in AD&D
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  1914. Yes.
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  1915. I generally agree and have always found Stoic reasoning rather solid.
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  1916. You are correct ! Ez 38 or thereabouts
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  1917. Nope, not really.
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  1918. References?
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  1919. Welcome board - glad you like the content!
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  1920.  @marshazeldin2350  *plays a rabbi on tv ;)
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  1921. Who would have guessed it, right?
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  1922. This is an academic channel - if you don't want to learn about "writings of ancient Hebrew priests" why are you even here?
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  1923. He'll get an episode for sure, this summer sometime probably
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  1924. Many thanks!
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  1925. Nice question and thanks for the kind words - I'll be getting around to Newton at some point! Him and his little Boyle toooooooo!
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  1926. Got a whole video on it
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  1927. I visited there a couple years ago and learned about some of the DNA evidence of the people that they think built the site. It was mind-blowing to realize they were from Anatolia!
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  1928. Ramak ride or die
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  1929. The Bible is just one collection of Israelite literature. But other such tales abound.
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  1930. Pretty boss, right?
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  1931. Doubt that's gonna happen
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  1932. Maybe!
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  1933. I just think these categories are often pretty clumsy. Teaching intro level stuff if always going to oversimplify but it's pretty complex and owning that complexity is just the task of doing right by these amazing thinkers
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  1934. None of them did miracles or had supernatural powers even if they did historically exist
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  1935. Thanks so much for saying so Paul!
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  1936.  @kevtherev8194  Could be, though I find that a lot of folks who practice esotericism are really open to most historicist theories. I don't claim to be the final word on anything but I just hope that this more 'historical' analysis helps folks
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  1937.  @danterosati  I'm hearing some Meister Eckhart, no?
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  1938. I think the Bahir was something like 'experimental' literature at the time and so was a bit all over the place. The earliest stratum of the Zohar, the Midrash HaNa'eelam is also a bit like this as well. Though sections 125-138 of the Bahir do form a continuous homiletical unit so it isn't totally random. In fact, if folks want to study the Bahir I would start with those sections.
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  1939. I'll be having ancient magic expert Dr Kirsten Dzwiza on later this week to discuss where scholarship is on the akephalos later this week!
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  1940. True story!
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  1941. Gold was just as valuable maybe even more valuable than now
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  1942. Nah, just the treasure of swinging
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  1943. Not I....I just learn the old-fashioned way.
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  1944. Both sides are locked in their respective fever dreams all the while the world is going to burn down around the rest of us.
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  1945. Thanks for the advice, but it being an academic channel I'm kinda obligated to treat the texts from that angle. Also, I think the shedim are kinda silly mostly :)
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  1946. What evidence do you have of him conning people?
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  1947. Unlikely but maybe!
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  1948. I agree - it's akin to people not understanding medieval cookbooks and interpreting them as religious texts because they mention God from time to time
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  1949. in the works!
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  1950. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  1951. neither
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  1952. It's funny, I was doing Agrippa posts waaayyy back on LJ and now I'm doing them here!
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  1953. This is an academic channel.
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  1954. That's an emic use of the language and this is an academic channel.
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  1955. Check out my Antiquarian Rare Occult Books - https://www.justinsledge.com/shop
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  1956. Thanks for saying so - just want to create some accessible, high quality content and I'm so happy and thankful you are finding it worthwhile. Thanks!
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  1957. The word in Hebrew just literally means bad or evil any other translation is just theological interpolation
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  1958. I suspect they were imitating or influenced by the 1688 diabolism in Boston. Symptomology is very similar and these cultural specific diseases can spread really quickly as they did in Salem and beyond
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  1959. That would be fun....would need a lot of kobolds for sure!
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  1960. I know some folks behind the scenes have been talking about an alchemy movie...
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  1961. Always happy to have future recommendations! Ancient doesn't equal True and New doesn't equal false - I'll take all comers!
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  1962. This is such an important avenue for research: esotericism and gaming. Thanks for this tip. I would love to do a series on the topic but I honestly don't follow the gaming world enough. However, I really do think it matters a great deal - I really dislike how scholars and academics downplay the important of video games. Thanks so much for this tip!
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  1963. Thanks, Eric! Yeah, it's a nice translation. The Copenhaver is a real technical work and I appreciate that he lays his focus there the WoH just reads more like scripture to me. It would be a neat thing to actually put some of the Hermetic hymns to music Wardruna / Heilung style, i.e., trying to recreate the sounds of ancient Alexandria. I think the translations in the Way of Hermes would be a great fit for that...I mean, until you do it proper in Greek or even Egyptian!
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  1964. Glad you are enjoying the content - let me know what you think!
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  1965. Yep
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  1966. You gotta have some fun with this stuff, right ?
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  1967. Not quite Passover yet, but Purim!
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  1968. Absolutely, thanks for watching. My day job - I guess - is working as a philosopher and what continues to shock me about the field is just how revisionist especially ancient but also medieval philosophy is - late-classical would likely suffer from this defect if it were taught at all. I take my task to present philosophers and their ideas in their own words and worldview as far as I am able, not to revise their ideas in order to make them amenable to myself and others. It's tough but I think that's the task at hand. You might also like the episode on Descartes I did as well. More philosophy and esotericism stuff in the works as well!
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  1969. Ironic or not, that's how it's done in basically all medieval, early modern and even modern texts.
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  1970. Valentinian Black Metal T R V E
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  1971. https://www.google.com/finance/
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  1972. Nope, substantial transmutation - aside from modern nuclear technology - is impossible.
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  1973. I really had to hold back going full Lacan in this video.
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  1974. In a word? Idiotic and no.
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  1975. I'm also Jewish - married to a rabbi and literally wearing a kippah - and this is an academic channel. Yahweh is the commonly used academic name for the Israelite God. While taboo replacement is fine for shul it won't happen here.
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  1976. The scholarship doesn't really support this view
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  1977. At least the 'Simon' / Evil Dead one is. Lovecraft seems to imagine it as Arabic in origin and likes to quote the *translation by John Dee which is sort of what I am imagining here. I learning more Lovecraft mythos than Evil Dead / Simon. Though, whatever text they used in Evil Dead certainly isn't Sumerian. Closest I could imagine would be something like Hieroglyphic Luwian not that they were going for being historically authentic or anything.
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  1978. In my experience, it would be difficult to make one guide to rule them all. Each text often requires some degree of individual attention. You may want to check out Adam Mclean's website and youtube channel for many excellent resources.
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  1979. Demiurge #2
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  1980. The first would been very boring to watch the other you can do way better in basically any research library.
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  1981. Running gag of my entire life!
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  1982.  @hyperboreanarchives7299  I think if people studied the Talmud carefully a lot of that confusion would go away. For instance anytime I hear "The Talmud says...." I immediately know I'm dealing with someone who doesn't really know what the Talmud is, nor how it works, much less how those debates among hundreds of sages over hundreds of years were much later codified into Jewish law which is still not universally agreed upon in the Jewish world. It's very, very complicated and must be treated as such.
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  1983. Glad it was helpful. I think there is a range of pure academics and some significant adjunct of practitioners as well. I'm sure the same is true, for instance, for people who study theology, religious history, etc.
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  1984. Thanks!
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  1985. Sure it ranges from culture to culture - but an interesting question!
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  1986. It was nice - grabbed a few pints nearby my hotel a bit north of Dublin and it was nice to meet the locals. They didn't seem to overly enjoy and it was great meeting some nice working class folks rather than just academics.
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  1987. Yep, latin & Greek be like that
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  1988. Thanks - ditto yours. Great talks on Kabbalah. At some point at I want to do a video - maybe we could collaborate together - on the, now mostly forgotten kabbalah of Israel Sarug. At any rate- would be great to work together thanks for the support!
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  1989. Nope, you're correct and some scholars have thought these caves may be just for that storage.
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  1990. Nah, I don't really do comparativist work.
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  1991. Thanks so much and big thanks for supporting the channel!
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  1992. I'm not a masochist enough to watch any content online about the Templars
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  1993. Both academic reconstructions, one using the vowels of אֲדֹנָי‎ and antiquated from early German scholarship, Yahweh being the standard academic spelling now
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  1994. Al = the, illah = God
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  1995. Publishing this experimenta is like publishing her digits... that's the least she deserves for killing all those kids
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  1996. Called my snoring pitbull named Mississippi :)
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  1997. I don't think they had much influence on one another
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  1998. I just keep it in my dumpster fire section
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  1999. Good luck! It's hard out there to find a program. I'm going to do an episode on studying WE in the academy at some point soon as well.
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  2000. Peace be with you, brother!
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  2001. Yep, generally benevolent. I think what's interesting to me is that they become exclusively malevolent in the HB and later literature while the karabu / k'ruvim (also a Lamassu) retains a positive position in the religious ecology of the Israelites.
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  2002. Yep, I'll be getting to most major alchemical texts as I build out the channel. Just takes time!
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  2003. 427
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  2004. I'm from the South so we call him Y'all-weh
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  2005. I'll put a word in to the boss.
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  2006. There's no evidence for such a position.
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  2007. I try to be honest and sensitive about the topic as much as I can. If you do give it a listen I would love to hear your thoughts.
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  2008. That's possible, and fits with the transmission history
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  2009. Low
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  2010. I think it's both more radical than appreciated and then oversold in some philosophy circles than necessary - but yes, I enjoy scotus. I even have a book of his for sale on my website.
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  2011. Nachash is the typical word for snake in HB and later. Though you are right the word in the serpent story is tanim (...ויהיו לתנינם...) which is typically used for more primordial creatures in the HB though here it might just mean something like eel or sea snake. This story is such a powerful myth - and I mean that in the positive sense of the word - that the more archaic term being used isn't surprising. Though, the noun does shift to nachash (.והמטה אשר־נהפך לנחש תקח בידך...) just a few verses down.
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  2012.  @marcbutts3107  wonderful, glad to be able to help!
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  2013. Thanks - I'm also pretty interested in the intersection of language and mysticism so, for me, this was a great starting point...oh yeah, it's "Manguiz"!
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  2014. Yep, unsurprisingly Crowley got it wrong too, probably via Atwood.
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  2015. Maybe like POWERTHIRST, made with real lightning!
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  2016.  @darkartsbyadrienne  Thanks to both of you for making this channel possible!
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  2017. A few - I read more than I speak for sure.
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  2018. Apparently his dialogues were extremely well written and very funny - it's a real pity they are lost. But we're lucky to have anything. Everything of Aristotle that survives survived in one Roman set of manuscripts.
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  2019. I should have just used a pic of Napoleon :)
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  2020. It was the numerical value of Nero's name.
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  2021. That's what they say
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  2022. Evidence?
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  2023. Depends on how you define those terms. Alchemy certainly not, though.
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  2024. Close, but gym sweat pants
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  2025. Thanks - I just try to be honest with you all about where I'm at. I'm not here to play the mastermind guru with all the answers.
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  2026. 1200-1000
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  2027. There is some - very little evidence - of possible meditation, mantra-like chants, body postures, and possible breathing techniques but the evidence is very, very scant
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  2028. No, the so-called Mt. Ebal text is unverified and just as likely a fishing weight as a cure tablet at this point.
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  2029. I'd have to have read or watched the movies to make a joke.
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  2030. "hello - I think you rang the wrong number, sorry."
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  2031. In Ba'al's name it's a voiced pharyngeal fricative not a glottal stop
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  2032.  @SHAX516  Absolutely - major figures and major works will be part of the channel for sure. I'm lucky to have so much material to work with. Stay tuned and always feel free to shout out ideas. I'm certainly listening!
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  2033. I doubt it I don't really have the expertise and I don't read Japanese so I'd be at a real disadvantage to produce anything of scholarly value
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  2034. He's absolutely correct about lhp from a classic perspective
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  2035. eh, I'd maybe render αγροικιζομενος as "hill-billy" or "redneck" but yes, it was much more or a slur I think. "Bumpkin" is probably too quaint.
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  2036. Yep, Charlie Jung will get an episode at some point for sure!
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  2037. Yeah not so much wrong as just.... totally made up;)
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  2038. The original recording was in the public domain. I literally own the copyright on the recording they are striking.
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  2039. No, it's not been peer reviewed and seems spurious at best
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  2040. My favorite part about this is that it begins "Obviously..."
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  2041. It's a really interesting question - pop-culture and esotericism. They obviously seem at fundamental odds but clearly both influence each other.
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  2042. My man! Hope you are doing well, friend!
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  2043. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  2044.  @risinglogosbear1208  though, to be sure, the Ethiopian church preserved it which is why we have it at all
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  2045. I agree - this channel could use more harpsichord!
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  2046. Huh?
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  2047. Again, huh?
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  2048. Aliens from Atlantis on DMT!
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  2049. I doubt you are 'dumb' - but I am glad the content is accessible!
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  2050. The Vogt and Tenen stuff is pseudo-science and unreliable.
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  2051. ;) If you can't have fun with all this stuff, why bother - right?
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  2052. I actually worked briefly on the European Voynich Manuscript Transcription Project. My short answer at this point is that I am partial to the hoax theory and I do not think contains an underlying text in either a natural or artificial language. I know people want there to be more 'there' there, for all sorts of reasons, but the mathematical analysis of the text just doesn't strongly indicate that.
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  2053. Sounds like the kind of thing a guru would say
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  2054. Yeah that's why I trust gurus about as far as I can throw them
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  2055. For me this means (1) Lots of piles of books grouped in some (quasi) logical manner with lots of handwritten notes stuffed into those books (2) Take notes as I read, underlining in books, taking notes on what grabs me as thought-provoking of lines for further research (3) As I finish books I compare notes to create 'meta'-notes to try to create webs or structures of relation and meaning (4) Go on long walks with my dog to try to synthesize all that on a daily basis (5) Rinse and Repeat For me, close reading, underlining, note taking and note comparing help to create a conceptual map that grows larger and more dense as I do more research on a topic or topics. It a pain and slow-going at first, but speeds up over time....decades. That's my shoot from the hip advice, if it's of any value.
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  2056. I do my best to praise when due and blame when due and be careful in doing so
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  2057. Hope the order fulfilling isn't working you too hard - but, not a bad problem to have!
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  2058. dog snoring ;)
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  2059.  @UniversalYakov  nah - the content is what's interesting. I'm just some guy :)
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  2060.  @sabrinakrisb4672 Don't sell yourself short :)
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  2061. I remain just as much a materialistic as ever. This stuff is interesting but not in any way veridical.
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  2062. Academic Source?
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  2063. I mean, I think the guy's all kinds of a rascist, plagiarizing hack, but I don't think anyone should report his videos unless they actually break YT rules.
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  2064. Arabic alchemical knowledge was coming into Europe from the beginning in 1144
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  2065. Nah there was another moon God
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  2066. Funny you and I have been on this tip for like 20 years or something - we really go get back !
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  2067. Yep - He's mentioned in there a few times
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  2068. nah
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  2069. I'm thinking that it predated Christianity, at least in some form.
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  2070. There are several perfectly viable pronunciations. Don't be a pedant.
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  2071. Though, I think Dee is really being totally literal here.
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  2072. about to break out some heket in a few :)
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  2073. Yeah that kinda came outta nowhere
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  2074. Yeah, eventually if I can grow the channel enough I want to do 2 videos most weeks!
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  2075. Thanks and gut shabbos!
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  2076. Hopefully the good emotions!
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  2077. :) Glad you are finding the content worthwhile. Thanks so much!
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  2078. I don't know of any comparative studies and basically anything that early would be very thin, I don't think that there are detailed religious texts from Mesopotamia until a few centuries later
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  2079. Glad you thought so - its a difficult subject and I hope I handled well.
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  2080. I'd rather invoke paimon's agent to get me an esoterica deal with Netflix
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  2081. Yep and yep
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  2082. v e r i l y
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  2083. Yes you are!
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  2084. Is not God in the height of the sky (heavens)? And look at the highest (lit. head) of the stars, how very high!
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  2085. Thanks - I was also pretty disappointing about Heidegger at the end. Very important philosopher and should be carefully read, studied and taught widely - also unrepentant, opportunist Nazi. Here it's less a potshot: I was addressing the difficulty of the literature and Heidegger's text on Parmenides has to be among the most difficult but also Heidegger at his most....uh.....Heideggeracious and I mean that as a compliment to his real philosophical and creative genius. I just (1) wouldn't want anyone to pick up that text first and (2) anyone who wants to remain an unrepentant Nazi just might have to deal with that reputation.
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  2086. Glad to help - and thanks !
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  2087. 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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  2088. You must be new here
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  2089. Red gold, made our wedding bands myself!
    6
  2090. not at ALL
    6
  2091. We did one!
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  2092. Yep, this is kinda the runic esotericism big bang
    6
  2093. Yep, the we are never really far from the past, sadly.
    6
  2094. Yep, at some point!
    6
  2095. Never hurts minorities to take an interest in body armor
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  2096. To be clear, I'm not an expert on Egyptian mythology but all of this is based on solid, scholarly evidence.
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  2097. Thanks Olli and it was great hanging out the other day!
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  2098. The early church fathers have a lot to say about the cult. The NT is still dealing with other problems.
    6
  2099. I think they died of some kind of epidemic
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  2100. why?
    6
  2101. There's a good video on it over at Dr. Angela Puca's channel Angela's Symposium.
    6
  2102. My buddy https://youtube.com/@fraserbuilds?si=pu3dfMw_O94VZ1U_
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  2103. Many thanks - it's a very ghastly affair. We are getting ready to go to the funeral as I write this. Many thanks for the kind thoughts
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  2104. Imagine learning about history only to realize it already happened.
    6
  2105. I'm pro-wimple
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  2106. Yep, I will and I mention that direction in the episode. Just beyond the scope of this episode.
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  2107. Nah
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  2108. I don't practice these materials - just an academic
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  2109. Thanks so much Paul, your comments are always heart-warming and I'm so glad you appreciate the comments. Nope, no ancient aliens here. I want to use the most reliable evidence-based content for the channel, you all deserve nothing less.
    6
  2110. "as fearsome as Tirzah"
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  2111. Lots of folks are having issues from what I can tell. I've been chatting with them and hopefully they will get it resolved soon!​ @variant-cover 
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  2112.  @TheModernHermeticist  He gets a shout at the end :)
    6
  2113. just forgot to close the curtain and shot the episode near dawn!
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  2114. DeBordorant.
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  2115. :) Called recording a video at 5 am with your dog snoring in the background !
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  2116. Thanks for such a thoughtful comment!
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  2117. Also, thanks for commenting and lending your expertise, especially as a experienced practitioner!
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  2118. part-time necromancer
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  2119. I think it might be all of those things. I mean even the goetic demons in early illustrations look comical by todays standards. Consider the classic horror movies - Nosferatu being a possible exception - and note they too seem pretty silly to us now. I think what scares us really shifts pretty rapidly. Back in the classical world writing, much less depicting a demon was very likely a deeply anxiety-inducing business.
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  2120. They'll be at least 3 parts of this series
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  2121. It is and it isn't - it's crowdfunded via my patreon community. All thanks to them!
    6
  2122. It is opened and very accessible, actually.
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  2123. For Pegg (The Corruption of Angels - 0691006563), it was the courtly cycle of aparelhamen and consolamen, especially near death, in the local cortezia culture.
    6
  2124. Cheaper than Ambien and still wacko dreams!
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  2125. Many thanks for this kind donation!
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  2126. Glad you enjoyed it! But yeah, alchemy day! Why not start it here?
    6
  2127. Yeah, could be - I've been reading that section for the upcoming Collab
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  2128. Yep, it's mostly allowed
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  2129. I don't know anything really about modern such orders. But, to my knowledge, there's no evidence of Rosicrucians prior to 1614.
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  2130. Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
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  2131. Yep, had a great hype man.
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  2132.  @jbaquinones  Who knows what secrets the sands of Egypt still hold?
    6
  2133. What they are or not is a philosophical or religious question. How they were used historically is a historical question and that issue is profoundly misunderstood and distorted in contemporary occult literature.
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  2134. Yep, just like tier or layer but in a specific hierarchy
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  2135. Pliny did to En Gedi if I remember correctly
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  2136. We can thank Paul for that one - best hype man in history
    6
  2137. Don't ask me, I didn't write it
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  2138. Thanks, friend! I am super interested in Zoroastrianism as well. Maybe in the future!
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  2139. Thanks friend - I know that substance matter more than style but a little style can't hurt!
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  2140. I'll take a week off at some point! Glad you are finding the content engaging!
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  2141. It's not a coincidence - inventors of Superman were jewish
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  2142. Thanks so much for saying so!
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  2143.  @clockworkgnome  Oh, interesting - I'm glad I'm articulate enough that I machine can understand me......wait
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  2144. You know ancient Egyptians drank their beer with straws?
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  2145. I would if that were actually true
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  2146. Thank you so much!
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  2147. The class will be uploaded to the channel for everyone to watch for free
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  2148. Caught them at st Vitus - great show ;)
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  2149. Stobros
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  2150. Transferring metaphysical contents from creature to creature is rather ubiquitous in magic - there's no connection here with the Sumerians.
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  2151. Sometimes Esoterica is kinda, well......
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  2152. not even if I could
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  2153. No idea but you can compare them. There are tons of diagrams of the interior parts of the Giza pyramids
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  2154. 1
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  2155. Thank you! Glad the channel is growing!
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  2156. The first part just dropped for patrons!
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  2157. I very much doubt you completely understand him after watching a few videos but, yes, onto the Guide!
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  2158. It has a mis-leading title name because the concept he has in mind in Hebrew doesn't track to actual Sabbatian theology, especially when translated to English. It's that simple.
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  2159. To my knowledge, Dee doesn't visit Bohemia until several years after the completion of the Monas in 1564. I suspect that virtually all of his knowledge in this earlier period is second or third hand via translations from Latin. Though, Dee is learning some Hebrew at this point.
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  2160. Yeah, that's definitely not true
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  2161. Yep, eventually!
    6
  2162. Correct, we have many such stories and they are probably true. Though, note such narratives are also disconnected from the flight narrative in the witchcraft lore, which is conspicuous. Also, was she the one that flew in a bowl? I always miss these narratives up.
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  2163. Thanks, brother!
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  2164. I mostly gasp in horror at her murdering babies, which is foundational to her mythos. But, yes, I'm all for autonomy.
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  2165. No mummification.
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  2166. botzina diqardinuta - lamp of adamantine darkness
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  2167. I'm sorry to hear that.
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  2168. Yeah, what a horrible time.
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  2169. Yep, from a dude named Plato
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  2170. אנשי מעשה
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  2171. De mineralibus is going to be your central text here
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  2172. I follow the same rebbe. And yes, sabbatean ideas deeply influenced early hasidut
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  2173. All through her life
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  2174. I've literally never watched a Dr. Who episode - total coincidence
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  2175. I'm not even going to ask...
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  2176. Welcome!
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  2177. I literally give the artist credit in the description.
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  2178. Who knows? The text says that G-d decided that they should obey to person who wields the harba....outside of that I haven't a clue ;)
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  2179. The literature of that time doesn't seem to indicate any evidence of such influence at that point. Though, there is lots of evidence in later literature, especially apocalyptic literature. That's several centuries later.
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  2180. t h i s g u y - - - ^
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  2181. Edgelord detected
    6
  2182. esoteric pradaism, all the cool™ kids are into it
    6
  2183. I really aim for the channel to bridge the gap between the two and be interesting for anyone regardless of their 'take' on this material. Thanks for the helpful and kind comments!
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  2184. It's not Lilith it's Agrat bat Makalat
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  2185. yeah...kinda
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  2186.  @tyrellrivera  All depends on the legends you want to believe - there are dozens. Generally in the Hebrew Bible Ha-Satan is a title, not a person, and acts as a kind of prosecuting attorney in the heavenly council. So, not a bad guy at all - just inconvenient for us sinners.
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  2187. Yep
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  2188. Yep, I leave all the hard work you y'all ;)
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  2189. I mean, it's not like I'm calling local pre-schools to see if his number is accurate or anything.
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  2190. I have and maybe doing that soon!
    5
  2191. Next time I run into galvah I'll ask her ;)
    5
  2192. If there were anything in there that's what Babylonian soldiers would have seen
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  2193. It's my job and I treat it as such
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  2194. Such important work you are doing. I wish you much success!
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  2195.  @Erel0  I'm not quite convinced - clearly there were dissidents and some of those dissidents later showed evidence of dualism. I tend to think this was an evolutionary process rather than the traditionalist position of a 'counter-church.' Looking forward to continuing grappling with this material, for sure!
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  2196. The kavod nistar is a real introvert
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  2197. Dan has a great read on the material!
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  2198. Thanks, friend - glad you are enjoying our content!
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  2199. Xipe Totec ftw
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  2200. I think he said Abano collected more than he digested. Coming from Pico that's rich.
    5
  2201. Actually went there when I was visiting for my honeymoon
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  2202. Yep, we are all learning. I hope Esoterica helps to introduce folks to all kinds of amazing stuff like these genius women. Thanks for watching, friend!
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  2203. at least!
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  2204. ✨ 🌈✨
    5
  2205. Nah, ancient Greek word
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  2206. That's more of an apologetic or theological question than a historical one, which this channel focuses on. Important and interesting, to be sure, but not really the mandate of this channel.
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  2207. I'm not but I'll look it up
    5
  2208. This this this
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  2209. Thanks so saying so. I really feel that if I have this education and can share it then I have a duty to do so - and it's a lot of fun! Thanks for considering support the channel and welcome aboard!
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  2210. Definitely taking that as a compliment ;)
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  2211. THE CREAM RISES TO THE TOP - OOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAH!
    5
  2212. There is no evidence of entheogen use in this practice.
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  2213. Easily deserves it - mine will be at least 4 parts
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  2214. I wonder where those fantasy novels got their conception of alchemy? Central European alchemy was always pretty connected to mining and assaying literature.
    5
  2215. Yeah, I don't want to earn the ire of any chemistry people. Also, I don't want idiots to harm themselves.
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  2216. I'm so glad - such wonderful people from the past and so worth knowing about. I'm glad I'm getting their voices out there and that folks are finding the content worthwhile!
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  2217. Originally Hurrian but imported into the Hittite mythology then transferred in the IE mythscape pretty early. In fact, the whole castration business seems to have its origins in Anatolia rather than being a more generic feature of the PIE mythos.
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  2218. Wow - thanks. I think I'm supposed to tell people to smash it or something.
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  2219. It wasn't. Institoris was censured by the Inquisition in 1490 but the Malleus was never put on the Index.
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  2220. I will actually - I've had a long lasting interest in Stoicism (my old online handle was actually chrysippvs!). Next week actually we will touch on Stoicism (though in a more whimsical way, so to speak) and eventually I'll cover how their hermeneutics are indispensable for the develop of esotericism.
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  2221. That's Megatron, I think
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  2222. The power of revisionism, unsurprising but sad.
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  2223. I'm sure he didn't
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  2224. I've thought about that as well thinking about the text as a kind of koan but who knows? Regadless, if the text works that way for you then koan it is!
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  2225. I am
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  2226. Nope, Judaism takes this as a form of speech rather than literally. Part of the reason the atonement theory of Christianity never made sense to Jews in general
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  2227. Thanks so much - they are doing well! I'm so touched by all the well-wishing on the channel!
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  2228. I agree - in general I want to make content that should be a good resource for both practitioners but also just anyone curious about the more arcane side of history, philosophy and religion.
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  2229. You can find the facsimiles at a large university library - individual volumes are very expensive. The Coptic original can be found in the volume I recommended.
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  2230. B'sha'ah tovah!
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  2231. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  2232. In this period? It's just badly corrupt Latin or very corrupt Greek, Hebrew and Arabic words being transmitted by people that didn't understand those languages. Makes it more numinous or spookier, I guess, if that's what you mean by feature
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  2233. THIS -^
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  2234. I am absolutely sure that if you reached out to them they could certainly use a skilled hand!
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  2235. כן יהי רצון
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  2236. Done several episodes on him!
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  2237. A previous generation of scholarship held that Mithraism heavily inspired early Christianity while more current scholarship thinks the link is more tenuous. I tend to agree with current scholarship.
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  2238. I've been there! Great spot.
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  2239. Thanks for saying so - very kind. That's exactly what I'm gong for and I hope I strike that balance.
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  2240. Gnosticism was incredibly elitist as far as I can tell
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  2241. Def going to try to make it a thing starting 2021!
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  2242. Oh yes! I'll be documenting the whole process!
    5
  2243. this - I'll take Chrysippus over stobros anytime
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  2244. I've used his artwork in two thumbnails and credit is given in the description of both videos. Did you check before making this accusation?
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  2245.  @thenowchurch6419  Me? I think Crowley was a sort of maverick genius with a flair for self-promotion. Of course, one person's 'maverick genius' is another person's 'psychopathic charlatan.'
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  2246. I'm slowly rolling out Kabbalah episodes. Maybe in the future I'll do an intro to the whole subject. Thanks for watching!
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  2247. Thanks, Jake and thanks for being an early supporter of the channel! But yeah...the rabbit hole goes pretty deep in all this stuff!
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  2248. I'm just using "Paul" as the traditional author here. Who knows who wrote these and Titus.
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  2249. Yep, Esoterica featuring our dog Mississippi barking at the postal worker!
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  2250. Theres a a range of sites, some accessible but others not.
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  2251. Axial age transition
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  2252. I think I make that joke a few times
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  2253. Glad I don't have a dog in that fight
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  2254. Mostly via the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
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  2255. Yep, just transliterations of Hebrew / Aramaic for words we don't understand
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  2256. "Jewish Rasputin" is my grindcore band
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  2257. Have you read the skeptical literature?
    5
  2258. Glad it was helpful!
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  2259. Reconstructed versions and the Mandaeans
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  2260. Nope, that's made up stuff from the mid 20th century
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  2261. Solid book, that one.
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  2262.  @kostaftp  sounds fun though...I mean, who wants a bridled imagination? That would be hella boring.
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  2263. Many thanks for these kind words!
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  2264. Paleo-Hebrew
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  2265. That guy peddles absolute nonsense
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  2266. Reincarnation
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  2267. If I had something like that I wouldn't be making YouTube videos because I would be in the bowels of hell already
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  2268. Enjoy it!
    5
  2269. Yep, I'll talk about this problem soon, e.g., should we use 'gnosticism' but thanks for the recommendation. Always welcome those and glad you found the intro interesting!
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  2270. Aren't we all ? ;)
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  2271. Exorcism was a very common Jewish practice.
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  2272. Any demons summoned by this should give you a grammar lesson before any worry about pronunciation
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  2273. Hilarious!
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  2274. It's solid!
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  2275. The amount of alcohol consumed while studying Talmud would alarm you
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  2276. Welcome!
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  2277. I bet Dr Dzwiza could be interested in something like that for her new Patreon community!
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  2278. It could be - I'll check the commentaries!
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  2279. It's a Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences.
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  2280. That's not really true, though
    5
  2281. Thanks for the kind words and good luck with the Hebrew! This is a really interesting and important discovery - glad to share it!
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  2282. There are so many other and better ways for me to waste my time
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  2283. verily
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  2284. I mean...100+ tons of gold and silver!
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  2285. I need an admin assistant - you don't want that job, trust me.
    5
  2286. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
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  2287. Not me. I'm just a bunch of hamsters taped together.
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  2288. What question? People that act like that probably need therapy more than anything else.
    5
  2289. are you just a quartodecimanist to be able to called yourself a quartodecimanist ? ;)
    5
  2290. Yep, not called "hylics" for nothing
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  2291. Thanks for the comments, though nearly all of the early anti-gnostic polemics by the proto-orthodoxy were written well before they had state power. By the 4th century, Arianism was their concern, not gnosticism.
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  2292. Tracks....
    5
  2293. Because academic publishing is a scam and a cartel
    5
  2294. Nice to know - I'm not sure where I heard that but always happy to hear other experiences! Thanks for the compliment and for watching!
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  2295. Glad it works - I'll make them everyone once in a while.
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  2296.  @thebanished87  Yep - I know a bit about it though I am certainly no expert. Maybe a topic for a future episode!
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  2297. Yep, I'll get to them eventually!
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  2298. Nice - it's the one museum I missed while I was there!
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  2299. Quoting from a sacred text doesn't make it so.
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  2300. It's the head of Pazuzu - the Mesopotamian storm demon - allegedly he is so fearful that he frightens away other demons, especially his sister Lamashtu: a real anti-demon demon.
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  2301. I really don't get it though.
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  2302. If you're going to do a 14 minute, you just gotta commit
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  2303. Yep really important those distinctions don't get lost
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  2304. You have no idea how much happiness it brings me to know that I don't have a dog in that fight
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  2305. Suso and Tauler in the hopper
    5
  2306. They bring it upon themselves
    5
  2307. It's a Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences.
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  2308. Great comment
    5
  2309. Edgey™
    5
  2310. That insidious goober would just dismiss me as one of those evil (((lizard people)))
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  2311. The problem is that the 'biblical' account doesn't much explain itself and is internally inconsistent.
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  2312. Yep I talk about it more in my theurgy woisodey
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  2313. para to the celsus
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  2314.  @minestronelettuce5703  It's a radiometer a friend got me many years ago and it does spin...at least when there's light.
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  2315. Thanks, friend - just another way to share some learning. Glad it's landing well.
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  2316. You're doing the L-rd's work! I would just like to see all this in a solid grimoire database, with hyperlinks, etc. I think if we had a database like that it would actually cut the Gideon's knot of getting folks to work on some of this material, especially eager grad students. Thanks for all your work!
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  2317. Hard pass
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  2318. Great text.
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  2319. I think it was Zsa Zsa Gabor that said "Resent is taking poison and expecting other people to die." I don't have any advice really, I just learned early on that, as Socrates said, "Worrying about the opinions of the vicious makes us worse than them." Of course, defend yourself by all means, but no, I don't resent religion or religious people.
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  2320. Judaism
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  2321. Talmud - the Koren is my fav, and the shamir, Gittin 68a passim
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  2322. Of course, I really enjoy making episodes like this. Of course, I'm also happy to amplify marginalized voices in esoterica as I can. I means esoterica itself is marginalized and if we're going to do the history, we should do it fully, especially focusing on the voices least heard historically but deeply deserving of a platform. Hadewijch fits that bill exactly. Thanks for the kind comment!
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  2323. Yes. Yes
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  2324. Not trying to do introductory level material on this channel
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  2325. Thanks so much - hope you stick around
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  2326. Sounds like the next Ghostbusters movie.
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  2327. Great! Glad it was interesting - will get to the allowed 'magic' soon enough!
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  2328. The author of this text? I am sure they believed in a god
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  2329. Big ramps and roller logs. Even their barracks are still on the plateau
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  2330. Honoring Lilith just seems as silly as the concept of "closed religion"
    5
  2331. Why unsettling?
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  2332.  @Eddie-ls9zw  Yeah, the TPT is a mess. I'll be covering Valentinian Gnosticism soon and many are these texts hella baroque.
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  2333.  @hyperboreanarchives7299  Absolutely there are xenophobic Jewish folks and I've called it out myself. Yep, there was a lot of influence, especially from Persian culture. If you want to get a better understanding of Jewish texts my favorite text is Holtz - Back To The Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts - 978-0671605964. If you want more specifically on the Talmud let me know. That text deals nicely with the Talmud as well and serves as a textbook for classes I teach. Yep, some Rabbis say dreadful things - especially Jochanan b. Zakkai and Shimon b. Yochai, no doubt about it. It's about owning them, putting them in their context (Shimon b. Yochai was viciously oppressed by the Romans, for instance, thus his opinion of the 'Edomites' isn't too high as you might imagine). Also, just fyi 'goyim' can refer to any non-Jewish person regardless of skin color (most 'goyim' aren't white) and Jews also come in many skin colors, etc. Though, it's not a term I like to use much. I don't belong to a form of Judaism that buys the 'chosen people' theology.
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  2334.  @hyperboreanarchives7299  It's a hugely complicated topic and a field undergoing a lot of revision right now. If a particular text jumps to mind I'm sure I'll do an episode on it. Nah, not against white people. The worst xenophobia I've seen has been against Arabs and Black people. Regardless, it's all shitty.
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  2335. Thanks Ted - I really appreciate the kind words and it's great to be able to focus on these amazing women
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  2336. No, they're not etymologically connected
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  2337. "interpretation"
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  2338. Thanks! and I heard his friends just call him Paz
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  2339. They were much more about Christ than Jesus
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  2340. Definitely going to happen.
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  2341. Maybe at some point ! I think it's a great idea I would just have to find the time to moderate it or find folks to do it for me but I think it's a really solid idea thanks for the recommendation
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  2342.  @paulinesereni5417  I really think it's a solid idea. Hopefully I can do something like that when I (b"sd) go full time with Esoterica which would be early next year at the earliest. I really want to create a space for folks to explore these ideas in a careful way and that platform seems great. But, that's only possible given the generous support I get from folks like you. Thanks so much, it's humbling and I am very grateful!
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  2343. Best prayer ever
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  2344. nourishment, they eat the "moisture" of our souls according to the texts
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  2345.  @jeremiahlarkins618  Nah, he was 'popular' in Babylonian religion as a demon of the winds and usually a bringer of sickness, usually fever.
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  2346. Yep...I kinda literally say that :)
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  2347.  @AlexusMagnum  Nice! You guys have the amazing one at Sidon!
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  2348. Man, that would be so fun.
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  2349. That's the legend!
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  2350. Thanks - hope you stick around as we grow!
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  2351. No, the temple wouldn't be any ritual state until dedication and could even be rededicated after desecration, e.g., Hanukkah
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  2352. Ain't just the protestants
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  2353. In bed at 9:00 and up at 5:00 basically everyday
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  2354. By "it" you mean profound mental illness and homicidally irresponsible priests
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  2355. It's... Something
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  2356. Yes, hail Santa! 🎄
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  2357. Apocalyptic preacher executed for sedition by the Roman empire
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  2358. agree
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  2359. Or my dog snoring. Very demonic.
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  2360. It's a great question. This 'do et des' theory of religion seems pretty ancient. The god, it seems, were in between forces of nature and divine persons and, because of their natures be manipulated to some degree. The idea of the remote, transcendent deity just wasn't really operating much in popular culture at that time. Which, when you think about it, makes sense - who wasn't a remote, virtually absent deity?
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  2361. oh yeah, and having a little fun while dong it!
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  2362. Gonna do an episode on Marx at some point. Maybe esotericism in the Soviet Union.
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  2363. Like a game of occult telephone
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  2364. Thanks - I try to keep to my recommendations strictly academic but am happy for folks to share any works they find helpful in the comments - thanks for doing so!
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  2365. That's a great analogy - only the kewl kids are down these
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  2366. Wonderful - glad it was helpful!
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  2367. What are you talking about?
    5
  2368. Yes. Yes.
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  2369. I didn't argue they weren't true - they might be - but when credulity insists on suicide it would be reasonable to take pause. At least historically, however, that the god(s) would want people to suffer and die seems much more likely. If the god(s) be tyrants - and they mostly seem to be - then I am interested in building a mystical guillotine.
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  2370. It really is - if I teach the class I'll discuss what little we know
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  2371. This may very well be possible!
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  2372.  @richardlevy1459  Certainly could be, but that might be above my pay-grade :)
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  2373. Not yet but eventually!
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  2374. Seek and ye shall find
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  2375. It got a mention ;)
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  2376. Yep, historically it has been used in that fashion
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  2377.  @LetsTalkReligion  To my knowledge there is a real lack. Of course, they are there in the background as wives, mothers, sisters, etc., and are doing the work that society to this day still renders invisible but sadly I don't think anything survives from a woman's hand on this topic from the medieval period if it ever existed.
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  2378. HAIL SANTA \m/
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  2379. Despite everything he would certainly wrong for the right reasons and I think that matters enormously
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  2380. Thanks for saying so - hope it's useful!
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  2381. No, there's good evidence they died in a local epidemic
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  2382. I don't justify anything
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  2383. yes.....yes.
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  2384. That's basically the consensus of non-dogmatic scholars.
    5
  2385. Modern Stoicism is definitely a cope
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  2386. Maaaaybe
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  2387. right?
    5
  2388. Might want to read a little closer...
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  2389. Quickest draw that side of the Atlantic :)
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  2390. Or the other way around
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  2391. You can at least view most of them over at archive. Org
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  2392. I would be excited to see some stuff in peer-reviewed journals!
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  2393. I share that sense and I also think that the hunts were strongly over-determined. I think that Federici adds another heap to that pile and does some interesting functionalist work as well. What's also interesting is that when they were over everyone seems to agree that it was a total blunder - especially in Salem. I can't think of a single 'witch trial' revisionist. At this point it seems hard to even find anyone to argue there were any witches at all.
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  2394. No, it's not an intellectually defensible position so not worthy of any debate
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  2395. Very late bronze age but certainly by Iron 1
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  2396. Wouldn't that be great!
    5
  2397. It wasn't in the least tolerant as you pointed out ask the Buddhists
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  2398.  @toddholmes4480  I am happy with any level of support especially just watching and commenting - never want anyone to feel any pressure to support the channel beyond their comfort level. Especially for someone that has severed their community as a librarian - such crucial and important work, thank you for your service!
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  2399. "14 September" 1486, but this date is traditional and there is very little evidence to support it. I suspect 1486 is correct, the rest is just tradition.
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  2400. Who said I was a kabbalist?
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  2401. Thanks for the donation - it's for a Mosin Nagant...because sometimes fascists hide behind things.
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  2402. Thank you so much!!
    5
  2403. My 4 year old loves Pete the cat !
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  2404. That's called teaching in the evening when you have young kids
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  2405.  @davidhays2846  They deserve it - fine scholars and content creators.
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  2406. This guy
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  2407. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  2408. Interesting theory - no idea, myself!
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  2409. :) Why not both?
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  2410.  @ninetales6485  If the modern "LHP" has nothing to do with the actual, historical roots of the term - in fact, if it even inverts it - that just seems somehow worse than wrong, just insulting to the origins of the practice. Yeah, I'm with Denis on this one, as much as I have a dog in the fight at all.
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  2411. Literally being besties with the king didn't hurt
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  2412. What a jackass he was
    5
  2413. It kinda is....YT is kinda Public TV 2.0
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  2414. It's really a hypnotizing text
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  2415. Thanks so much - I really want produce high quality, scholarly content. These topics are really important and under/mis represented so I'm looking forward to keeping the channel going. Thanks for your support, it means a lot!
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  2416. Hope you dig it, brother!
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  2417. Thanks - Yep, looking forward to making that episode for sure!
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  2418. "rebbe's: the gathering"
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  2419. Yep it's a fascinating site!
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  2420. I think huffing paint would make me less stupid than doing that.
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  2421.  @lawrenceaubert6540  none - Elohim -- aleph-lamed-hey-yud-mem: 1 + 30 + 5 + 10 + 40 = 86 Hateva -- hey-tet-bait-ayin: 5 + 9 + 2 + 70 = 86
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  2422. Working on the slides for Zohar part II right now!
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  2423. I'd rather fall down stairs.
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  2424. Nope this episode ends around 722 bce contact with Zoroastrianism won't occur until after 586 bce
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  2425. I'm not sure I agree with him, but he's fascinating just the same.
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  2426. That legend of Zelda music does slap though
    5
  2427. From a great Byzantine alchemical manuscript.
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  2428. You gotta do the spell in CLM849 for it to work....if it doesn't work, then blame that necromancer :)
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  2429. The neglect worries me more than fires
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  2430. It's a great film with an amazing score!
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  2431. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  2432. I really hope anyone can find the channels content useful regardless of confession or lack / freedom therefrom - hope you find the series engaging!
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  2433. That's how his friends know him
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  2434. I thought so, just didn't want to speak for anyone else. "Change My Mind - Academic Publishing is a Scam" would be a fun table to set up at academic conferences where the book vendors are.
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  2435. That hardest working person listening to Agrippa lectures!
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  2436. I don't trust anything that's passed through oded golan's hands
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  2437. If you can't communicate clearly it's probably a sign you don't know what you're talking about. Glad, you enjoy the content!
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  2438. French Black Metal = Yes
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  2439.  @sloppycabi  I just love AD&D!
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  2440. Agree, rando elf
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  2441. I wish it were the Book of Thot ....I'm deceased :)
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  2442. Yep, it was the Ilan HaGadol-R' Meir Paprish which I think is still in print and you can sometimes find in scroll form as well!
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  2443. Wish you were closer I need a copy of sefer raziel rebound !
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  2444. Ha! Glad to hear it, brother!
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  2445. And Latin and aremenian
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  2446.  @2tehnik  the Greek original only survives in fragments, mostly in the first few books
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  2447. What if I told I had a whole episode on newton's take on the emerald tablet
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  2448. Not really, in false friend name only, when they (plural) were conflated with lamashtu ( and ardat lili ), but all surviving legends are Jewish. I agree, though I don't think this spell is about Lilith at all, but beleth who is attested in Jewish demonology
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  2449. Lilith isn't definitively attested as a singular demoness until 4Q510–511
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  2450. The "etz chayim" doesn't appear in Sefer Yetzirah
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  2451. Prior to the 17th century virtually all "western" alchemy was non-spiritual
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  2452. It's Aramaic
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  2453. for real though.....
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  2454. Tomb of Horrors .01 edition
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  2455. Thanks, Marco - Hope you're well, we should catch up soon!
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  2456. We are all learning together! I'm just happy that the content is accessible and useful to folks. Thanks for watching and hope you stick around!
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  2457. Yep. You can punch right through reality. Then it just turns out to be the windshield of a cop car.
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  2458. If I translated that stuff literally this video would get demonetized - silly paracelsus
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  2459. Should be releasing an episode on the Abramelin before the end of the year!
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  2460. I think white men are pretty safe - but a real conversation about historical wrongs, the current effects of those wrongs, and how to build a future where we are all given our due worth...gotta say, I'm pretty about that.
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  2461. I hope this gives rise to many, many band names
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  2462. Probably not - let's talk religion has great content on the djinn
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  2463. Of all the people I would imagine to be a " perfected human" - king David ain't on that list ;)
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  2464. I'm happy this channel has the support it does and I never want anyone to feel the need to offer financial support when they honestly can't. This information should be accessible everyone and I'm so thankful that I have the ability to do this work.
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  2465. Two in Genesis one in Psalms
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  2466. Actually I suspect Elmo is probably more real
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  2467. It's a great idea.
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  2468. Very little pleases everyone, but I make my rounds!
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  2469. I worried this one went a little too hard on the technicalities of medieval philosophy - glad folks are digging it! I love Scotus.
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  2470. It's Marxism, make up your own gnostic faction - there's nothing more Marxist than being sectarian.
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  2471. Good eye! That extra "1" is a doozy!
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  2472. Yeah, I wouldn't mess when them either. They seem....cantankerous
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  2473. Very kind of you to say!
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  2474. Not likely - the Israelites likely didn't even exist then.
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  2475. It's TRVEKVLT ;)
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  2476. Very careful time management and a long mental backlog!
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  2477. Yep, like everyone else.
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  2478. No one should be ashamed of anything having to do with monster trucks. I'm very pro monster truck.
    5
  2479. Because every episode is dropped on Friday at 1pm est
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  2480. I don't think this stuff gets really disgust out of pretty specialized medieval studies scholars despite the fact that it's pretty important to Western history especially Western esoteric history
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  2481. As much as this might be about Lilith, I'm glad you enjoy it !
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  2482. I'm a calligrapher so that helps read a text like this one, but I checked everything by the Kieckhefer transcription, though I think his reading of Lilith here isn't correct (but still follow it because of his massively superior erudition on these matters )
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  2483. Well, that's what their enemies said of them.
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  2484. and Turkish!
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  2485. Thanks for being kind and saying so - no reason we can take the material seriously and have a good time learning together!
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  2486. I address this in the comment below.
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  2487. Doooooo it ;)
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  2488. pass
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  2489. Met veel plezier publiceren wij haar boek!
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  2490. Yep, done a few episodes on the gnostics and mani will get his day as well!
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  2491. I can't say I'm a fan, honestly. I would go with the Pritzker if you are able, even if only 1 volume at a time.
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  2492. You'd be surprised what interests you might develop
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  2493. Yep, 3 hours :)
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  2494. Thanks so much!
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  2495. Many thanks, friend!
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  2496. I'm sure the phenomenon of possession is over-determined af
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  2497. yep, that's true.
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  2498. Yeah, so does Plotinus.
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  2499. Yeah, Thor cross-dressed that one time!
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  2500. If we can't have fun then why bother, right?
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  2501. It goes like that sometimes
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  2502. Allegedly at the massacre of Béziers
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  2503. The most esoteric hug
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  2504. Great question - will have to do some digging. I don't think the Gospel of Mary was widely known - it's not found in the Decretum Gelasianum which enumerates a bunch of books floating around at that time.
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  2505.  @ktkatte6791  Wow, meth and the Ars Notoria....sounds like a True Detective episode!
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  2506. Thanks! I think the Qu'ran says that Allah has made us to get to know one another, and I'm about that.
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  2507. Tell me about it - the struggle is real
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  2508. Yep, a similar thing probably happened with both the 'Cathars' and the witch-hunts.
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  2509. The text itself
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  2510.  @DianaRowanBrightWay  and many thanks for your support and kind words - and your lovely music!
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  2511. Better, apparently
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  2512. dank je wel - living in the Netherlands will do that to you ;)
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  2513. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/seminars/anti-oedipus-iii/lecture-02
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  2514. Yes, verily
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  2515. Gotta ask Chinese esoterica guy
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  2516. Glad you find the content rewarding!
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  2517. I grew up doing programming as a hobby - mostly in C and C++ - these days I'm interested into retro stuff like machine code for the 6502, etc.
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  2518. Yeah, just wait until I have to move. Then no one is jealous of all these damn books :)
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  2519. Great to hear from, friend!
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  2520.  @hermestrismagistos3145  It's an interesting question and I have a lot of thoughts on it - but this isn't the venue for them. This channel focuses on the academic study of esotericism and my own personal politics don't and shouldn't matter here. I'm happy to discuss them - if I were on a political podcast or something like that - but not here. I feel its important not to muddy the waters between what I think to be true and the content I produce.
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  2521. I just had a cold and my voice didn't work
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  2522. Hell naw, their Latin isn't even that great.
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  2523. Yeah, that one is weird with the throwing the mummy at them. Sorcerers of the World Unite!
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  2524. Comments like this make my day. Thanks so much!
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  2525. I can't speak for the Spanish side of things but I really hope to make Esoterica about the scholarly side of the content and really want to highlight the material and not my beliefs, etc. I also tend to think that if I do express my opinion that I can do so without tearing other folks down. Thanks for watching and for your thoughtful comments.
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  2526. Many thanks!
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  2527.  @2024HaranHassan  I don't believe about it, I be about it.
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  2528. I think he's referring to the spiritual alchemy folks, Jungian, etc. I don't really follow that world so much. You could ask in the alchemy sub on Reddit but you might get some pretty looney answers.
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  2529. Who knows but safe travels!
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  2530. Ha! I'm just happy that someone of your knowledge and practice respects the work I do - it means a ton to me.
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  2531. Glad you enjoyed it, friend!
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  2532. You'd have to de-goth her for the pre-possession part of the film so good luck with that!
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  2533. Nope, different texts. The Emerald Tablets date from the Islamicate period but may ultimately date from the Hellenistic period. The MSS of the Book of Thoth dates from the Roman period but the text likely goes back much further.
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  2534. Yeah, he did a couple kinda mocking Hitler (who allegedly wanted Spare to do a portrait of him), good on Spare as a strident anti-fascist.
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  2535. Sefer Raziel microfilm amulet
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  2536. Better than just despairing I suppose
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  2537. No "going naked to the cross" is very much a Franciscan tradition
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  2538. Not really, that's all really new thought / new age stuff.
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  2539. Someone should make a compilation of my brill shade and send it to them
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  2540. The stoics were among the most radical materialists in the history of philosophy
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  2541. If I lived by this dictum I'd be completely insane.
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  2542.  @beauwhitlock5034  You can read about my beliefs on the FAQ on my website.
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  2543. It's a historical importance but a very little academic value.
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  2544. Yep, the favorite metaphor is the dross thrown off in the process of purifying gold or the sparks thrown off a blacksmith's anvil in the forging pricess
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  2545. Will def get to Trithemius at some point. As for Agrippa's group, virtually nothing is known about it, sadly.
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  2546. I'd rather have jock itch.
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  2547. I've never seen any evidence of supernatural events if that's what you mean
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  2548. Truly fascinating guy, but you really appreciate the wisdom of pumping the brakes on Kabbalah after all this
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  2549. Thanks for making it though - hope it was interesting!
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  2550. Welcome aboard! I'm also a Dan Fan, super smart guy.
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  2551. Thanks for saying so !
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  2552. nah
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  2553. Thanks - I think we are all learning together and happy to have the chance to learn with all of you!
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  2554. Templars@aol.com
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  2555. Because there are multiple historical records attesting to his existence.
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  2556. It's truly an astounding discovery - we'll have to deep dive it next time we chat !
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  2557. Need Voice Acting? Erin does an amazing job (in addition to being a awesome scholar) - https://www.erinevanswalker.com/
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  2558. Het betekende niets. Negeer alsjeblieft!
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  2559. This is cheaper and less work
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  2560. Glad you like it I'll be getting to the medieval European Jewish astrology at some point, Ibn Ezra, etc.
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  2561. Great - hope you find the episode interesting!
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  2562. Aleichem/n shalom! I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'authentic.' It's certainly a very old expression of Jewish magic and astrology and I would suspect that much of the material reaches back at least a millennium or so. I can't personally vouch for the accuracy or the efficacy of the magic and astrological concepts in it. Allegedly simply having the text prevents house-fires. No house I have lived in with a copy has burned down (B"H!). Hope this helps, if you have any specific questions about the text feel free to let me know!
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  2563. Check out the books in the description!
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  2564. Yep, correct or a conflating of the two
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  2565. I've done a couple of episodes on witchcraft with book recommendations. Check those out!
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  2566. Yep, definitely related!
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  2567. You knew it was coming!
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  2568. Yeah filming at 6am will do that
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  2569. Thanks! Sometimes one does get the feeling that some of these documents are 'stream of consciousness' or somesuch. What voice they hear is anyone's guess.
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  2570. It's wonderful how little I care about what happens on tiktok. It's only second in hilarity to Yahweh sending a "spirit of deception" to get Ahab killed.
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  2571. "theory" is a strong word for those ideas. I'd call that wild speculation and wishful thinking.
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  2572. Thanks - I know a bit about Buddhism but it would be so far outside my expertise that I would be wary of stepping that far outside my lane. Perhaps I can bring on some academic experts on the topics for future interviews of episodes. Thanks for the advice!
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  2573. Monotheism is a mostly post-exilic phenomenon
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  2574. This episode was so much fun to make!
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  2575. Yep, we should take the content seriously, not ourselves ;)
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  2576. * B R I L L *
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  2577. Probably not, the Kabbalah doesn't really exist until the 13th century in Europe. It's probably a Canaanite religious practice thought probably not child sacrifice strictly speaking.
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  2578. Never let the facts get in the way of the truth ;)
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  2579. Interesting question I'll have to go back over the manifestos and think about it. Al-Kindi was widely known and have only really become 'obscure' in the past few hundred years.
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  2580. Thoughts I've never thought
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  2581. Sadly, we only got Zosimus really. But, that stuff is really neat just the same.
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  2582. Probably not that's more a general Christianity topic not esotericism related
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  2583. Regardless of any connection to the occult, it's just a mistake to ignore the tremendous influence of Christianity, for good and ill. Focusing on just the ill is simply bad history.
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  2584. Because this is an academic channel :)
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  2585. This channel isn't meant to be introductory level - there are a lot of great channels like that. So, we aim the terminology to upper level undergraduate religious studies and philosophy students.
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  2586. It occurs in both forms in both Sumerian (𒁾𒉆𒋻𒊏 - dubnamtarra, note there is no plural .ene 𒂊𒉈 marker) but does occur in plural form in Akkadian ṭup šīmātu, ṭuppi šīmāti
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  2587. Many thanks!
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  2588. I was speaking Ugaritic not Hebrew
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  2589. I have all these books which kinda makes me not want to know how much I've spent...
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  2590. These specific spells? Not to my knowledge but the tradition of magic represented here is likely alive and well
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  2591. Good question - maybe some folks with solomonic experience will chime in when it goes public tomorrow. I'd be curious to hear as well!
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  2592. That's a good question. But, the amount of young men I've unfortunately run across attempting to ape the life of Crowley is unsettling.
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  2593. Nope it's legit!
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  2594. Transcript?
    5
  2595. Glad to be able to do it!
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  2596. Who said I was a theist?
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  2597.  @drangelapuca  Yeah I'd wondered about that myself. That Hurrian ( then imported into the Hittite ) he Kingship in Heaven myth cycle which clearly had an impact on the Hesiodic cycle. The strange thing is that Hurrians weren't Indo-Europeans and I'd wondered to what degree the chaoskampf is an Anatolian (or Anatolian-Semitic) importation into the Indo-European myth structure. Then I found ML West had made this argument in his wonderful The East Face of Helicon!
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  2598.  @Plippito  still super neat though!
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  2599. Oh I just traded them for YouTube disciplinary techniques.
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  2600. I'll be doing my Xmas Eve ghost story episode this year too!
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  2601. I've already been there :)
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  2602. Yep, it's the only 'grimoire' that Agrippa seems willing to lean on and crib from. I think its hermetic-ish origins get past Agrippa's "I hate magica moderna" filters
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  2603. No, they don't. It's widely recognized that there are some cases where the DSS and LXX provide better readings than the Masoretic text. That has nothing to do with the original language of the texts which was definitely Hebrew and a bit of Aramaic.
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  2604. probably not.
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  2605. The Meyer translation is very good
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  2606. This comparative stuff with myth systems, outside of those specifically genetically linked, e.g., Indo-European myths, has always struck me as bizarre
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  2607. More like $300 brill books :(
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  2608. Dog
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  2609.  @t0xcn253  eventually get to Bruno
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  2610. Trust me, around here, that passion is absolutely not strange
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  2611. Verily
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  2612. Yeah, seraphim....as much as Seraphim are angels (they're not)
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  2613.  @mr.bulldops7692  Thanks but I really have no idea what I'm doing.
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  2614. yessir :) Uranium salts are the ticket!
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  2615. I think Tzahi Weiss does as good a job as any tracing the connection through the late-classical Syriac fog and I think he's correct both in connection and dating.
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  2616. Huh?
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  2617. No, not yet. Soon hopefully though!
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  2618. Hope you're doing well, brother!
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  2619. I'm sure there are pdfs of it around and I'm pretty skeptical of any solution at this point. In fact, I'm skeptical there is even a solution.
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  2620. I just watch Evil II and the Goonies on repeat.
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  2621. It's just a contraction of the Arabic Al-Ilah - lit. The God. Ilah is cognate with Hebrew El
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  2622. Totally agree - what's not said is always more haunting than what is.
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  2623. Ha ! I'm glad for the rare time I feel rooted around these parts !
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  2624. Some of it
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  2625. Yeah, that conspiracy theories like that can have such a grip on us still blows my mind.
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  2626. She is a bad B, as the tales go.
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  2627. Dan is planning to!
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  2628. probably not
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  2629. But only probably ;)
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  2630. This is a great read.
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  2631. Yep, as I suppose most films has to do to be good films.
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  2632. Moderator? Just me ;) I'm committed to having a civil space for academic discussion, even in yt comments.
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  2633. It's funny because, as you mention, there is a good bit of work on Reuchlin as a Judeo-friendly humanist (a good look in post WWII German scholarship..."remember that one guy that didn't....") but even back in Zika's article he complained how there was so, so little interest in Reuchlin's actual published works precisely because they deal with 'esotericism.' It's remarkable how virtually unchanged that situation is.
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  2634.  @innocencesgone  Ha! Even that small I recognized it! I'm a fan - Me and Zelda Fitzgerald share in common that we taught ourselves French to read Rimbaud.
    5
  2635. See, who said this channel wasn't practical?
    5
  2636. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. - Patton
    5
  2637. This myth was likely long forgotten by the time of Jesus.
    5
  2638. Why?
    5
  2639. Delicious
    5
  2640.  @allysonsing5390  Wolves in the Throneroom, Krallice, Abigail Williams, Blackbraid, early Deafheaven, etc
    5
  2641. Yeah the theology of the movement doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves
    5
  2642. like bibliomancy?
    5
  2643. Sadly, I have to admit that my knowledge of esoteric work in the Islamicate world is pretty weak. It's something I'm working to get a better handle on and will eventually have to learn Arabic much better. Thanks for the recommendation - I'll have to check it out. There is just so much amazing and interesting stuff out there!
    5
  2644. Thanks, friend! Glad you found it interesting!
    5
  2645. Lots! But only fragments
    5
  2646. No, there is no such thing in traditional Kabbalah.
    5
  2647. Unlikely
    5
  2648. Precisely because it doesn't
    5
  2649. Yep, I'd love if one were to have been written and survived. The 'gnostics' seemed to mostly attack each other from what we can tell
    5
  2650. It's definitely not. It's from an Afro-Asiatic root meaning "to raid"
    5
  2651. Fear + conspiracy thinking is a helluva drug
    4
  2652. My 2000 Toyota Corolla is worth about as much
    4
  2653. I haven't seen any evidence of these experimenta "working"
    4
  2654.  @tyrellrivera  which is just made up nonsense with no connection to actual texts on the klippot. It's amazing how many of these texts are out there.
    4
  2655. Except there really isn't a 'satan' in Kabbalah. That's really just Christian material.
    4
  2656.  @tyrellrivera  Nope, that's really a Christian or Islamic idea. Which is ironic, these edgey satanic texts relying on Christianity. It's always given me a chuckle and shows how little they understand Kabbalah to begin with.
    4
  2657. Yep!
    4
  2658. I really want to do a series on the history of games, specifically video games and the occult. I'll need to team up with someone to really make it work but I think this topic is super interesting! But, yep, Ars Notoria coming up at some point in the future, stay tuned!
    4
  2659. Yes and it's clear that at least in the elephantine context that Anat and Yahweh we're definitely a thing
    4
  2660. It certainly could be. The question would be if the symphonia or the summaria come 'first.' As we have it - if I recall correctly - is that the summaria is first in the MSS with the symphonia near the end and the glosses on the symphonia being added at some point later (though it looks like the same hand). Now, that's the order of the MS and not the order of creation and we can't conclude one from the other without some other evidence, at least, it seems that way to me. At least, as it stands, we have a contemporary gloss for "orschibuz" and why Higley's gloss for "orzchis" must remain tentative. Your analysis, though, seems viable to me. The same thought had occurred to me as well given our other evidence of Hildegard producing other such compounds
    4
  2661. Thanks, friend! Things are good but heavy these days
    4
  2662. Yep, this is a one man show
    4
  2663. Thanks - my channel focuses primarily on the academic study of topics in esotericism and want it to be helpful anyone interested in the topic. But yes, Zohar is difficult though I think the word you have mind here might just be מזל like in "Mazel Tov!" In the Zohar there are several important discussions of the role and power of mazel.
    4
  2664. enochian spirits
    4
  2665. I also really dislike when topics on the inquisition are basically just an excuse for people to engage in torture porn. Of course the torture aspect is very important in the history of jurisprudence but people really overdo it
    4
  2666. Sadly the main place was Exeter but with the passing of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke that program has imploded. I think the university of Leeds may also do some work here. The person to ask would be Angela Puca over at Angela's Symposium. Take a look at her page and see if you can ask her there. Good luck with your studies!
    4
  2667. They got these things called books...
    4
  2668. Not that the church doesn't have it's own share of horrifying problems, but I try to call a spade a spade.
    4
  2669. His name wasn't Solomon. It was שְׁלֹמֹה and it's not from three words - it's from just one, you can pretty easily see the shoresh.
    4
  2670.  @Randomuser2329  I'm pretty sure the links are there and I have nothing but profound respect for Filip's work.
    4
  2671. Y E S
    4
  2672. Would love to have him on!
    4
  2673. Thanks - trying to use whatever education I have to make this wonderful material accessible!
    4
  2674. Nice - not at this point, I just think his artwork really fits well with this whole gnostic cosmology business. You know....considering he kinda made one.
    4
  2675. cope
    4
  2676. Absinthe Brouilleur Auto Verse
    4
  2677. Nothing about any of these stories is probably historically accurate.
    4
  2678. Yeah, neat topic!
    4
  2679. Yep, that's a great text
    4
  2680. Ha! I actually played a 2600 hz tone just to hear it again.
    4
  2681. Yeah, I have no idea. I wonder what Saif and van Bladel think?
    4
  2682. Yeah, the slow drip is an exercise in patience!
    4
  2683. Philosophy but also have an advanced degree in religious studies.
    4
  2684. at least you can talk to them, unlike...well everyone else.
    4
  2685. huh? His book(s) is/are on amazon. Selling them direct allows him to make a bit more money, as authors should.
    4
  2686. Welcome Aboard!
    4
  2687. Verily verily verily
    4
  2688. Yes, but kinda yes.
    4
  2689. I'm not a rabbi, but thanks!
    4
  2690. definitely not
    4
  2691. Kemetic kore
    4
  2692. Thanks, friend. We all learn differently and I'm happy this episode was helpful for you! Glad you are sticking around!
    4
  2693. I mean there is a little bit on my website. But I really work hard to not make this channel about me or my beliefs.
    4
  2694. Yep, I included a link in the description.
    4
  2695. Thoth underwent multiple changes in his develop as well.
    4
  2696. It still seems to be fooling people despite me literally putting April fools in the title!
    4
  2697. I think Yahweh is a myth, like all gods.
    4
  2698. Me too - certainly on deck!
    4
  2699. He shoulda cut an album of ladino tracks
    4
  2700. this is the way
    4
  2701. I mean the singularity was certainly being and even in empty space there are certainly vacuum fluctuations so I'm counting those as being too
    4
  2702. The PS was written centuries after Mary Magdalene died, if she existed in the first place. She also didn't write the gospel attributed to her, it also being composed long after she was dead.
    4
  2703. We're working to get it out very soon - making final touches this week. Definitely in print and probably ebook, around $25-30
    4
  2704. I didn't miss it - it just isn't covered in this aspect of specifically Greco-Coptic magic.
    4
  2705. Pot meet kettle ;) but I saw what you did there. Some penis swallowing on that team too !
    4
  2706. Pretty boring hell most the time
    4
  2707. He seems to think the 3 books and the 4th are magically compatible. I don't share that opinion. Honestly, I haven't really read much contemporary occult takes on the grimoires so I can't speak on it.
    4
  2708. Somebody's gotta keep an eye on these occulty hipsters ;)
    4
  2709. Great book - in the recommended readings in the description
    4
  2710. For realz though
    4
  2711. Yep - lots of Ba'al, this episode is specifically dealing with the character in the Ugaritic Ba'al cycle.
    4
  2712. Those are definitely not the same word spelled differently
    4
  2713. This is an academic not a confessional channel.
    4
  2714. No, not nothing.
    4
  2715. None that I am aware of.
    4
  2716. Thanks for sticking around for it all!
    4
  2717. This idea has been rejected by competent cryptologists.
    4
  2718. Fascinating stuff, right?
    4
  2719. Knowing how old Logan is they probably could have had a beer and a smoke together
    4
  2720. Ha! The one is older and the other has a nicer binding..... problems, problems
    4
  2721.  @wills1087  The new translation is much, much better. You can find the names of 'god' in the critical edition. No, I don't think any supernatural forces exist - 31 particles and 4 forces, that's it, so far at least.
    4
  2722. Roman Mithraism had nothing in common with indic religion as I point out in the episode
    4
  2723. Not yet! Hopefully later this summer
    4
  2724. Or even if gnosticism makes sense as a category!
    4
  2725. Most academic scholars appreciate this fact
    4
  2726. Probably the same
    4
  2727.  @jdewit8148  if they wanted authority, like it's clear valentinus and Marion did, why think it would be any different
    4
  2728. That hypothesis has been rejected to competent cryptologists.
    4
  2729. pretty
    4
  2730. Polytheistic religions were just as bad.
    4
  2731. I'm glad you found the material interesting!
    4
  2732. They didn't
    4
  2733. At least their prices
    4
  2734. It appears that for many gnostics you were one into one of three groups, only one of which is fully capable of salvation. I mention it in the episode.
    4
  2735. Different Agrippa ;)
    4
  2736. never
    4
  2737. Dog snores
    4
  2738. Ghost Dog, via Hagakure
    4
  2739. is not terribly historical.
    4
  2740.  @kheph777  Not kidding just sarcastic :) I'm so glad I don't have to have an opinion about him or his work.
    4
  2741. Uranium and trinitite
    4
  2742. Yep, will get around to it!
    4
  2743. "historicity of the Synoptic gospels" - that's a good one.
    4
  2744. Awesome - will get to the allowed 'magic' soon!
    4
  2745. I've always held that a (much) weaker version of the Yates' thesis is defensible and this Descartes connection isn't trivial in that respect.
    4
  2746. You can find one here - https://seforimcenter.com/Raziel-HaMalach-Miniature-Size__p-4807.aspx - only $1.50 for magic powers, can't beat it!
    4
  2747. (Shrugs)
    4
  2748. Yep!
    4
  2749. I think I said in the episode that this cloak 'provides' many powers but not invisibility
    4
  2750. Unlikely, and it's the result of at least several scribes as I point out in the video
    4
  2751. There's no evidence of mental illness in the text.
    4
  2752.  @johnnyt1175  for the history of this text? nope, not so much.
    4
  2753. Glad to be compared with prof. Knowby, z"l :)
    4
  2754. Doing my best - thanks for watching!
    4
  2755. That's a more modern usage of the term.
    4
  2756. Thanks - a great piece of advice I was given is that if you can't explain something to someone you meet on the bus then you really don't understand it yourself. Hopefully, if any of the content here is inaccessible then I'm to blame, not the viewer. Thanks for watching!
    4
  2757. Mine too - super interesting stuff.
    4
  2758. Bragging about how pagan Catholicism is kinda is a weird flex, but you do you
    4
  2759. Thanks so much, friend - I think we all have a ton to learn from the past and I hope this channel opens up an avenue to some aspects that not many of us have heard about. Glad you are finding the content interesting!
    4
  2760. Depends on the community - some take the occult very seriously others think it's silly superstition
    4
  2761. Thanks - I've not seen it. Always great to have recommendations - may be I will get around more film analysis for the channel.
    4
  2762. Most of orthodox Jewish prayer services are based around the temple service in some way or the other
    4
  2763. No idea. These are meant to be art objects not ritual objects.
    4
  2764. Topic of future episodes for sure!
    4
  2765. It depends on when you ask. Clearly for Zosimus both elements were there but the 'spiritual' dimension is almost totally missing from the Summa Perft. and very much reappears in the centuries that follow. This probably has more to do with our conception of 'spiritual' which is a more concept which we often impose on these older texts.
    4
  2766. Thanks, brother! Hope the yamim noraim are fulfilling and uplifting - glad for what you do!
    4
  2767. I invited him a few times...no luck ;(
    4
  2768. Yep
    4
  2769. There are solid arguments now that moloch was actually never a god at all. And I think this psychedelic stuff is mostly nonsense.
    4
  2770. It'd be more interesting if there were any evidence for it
    4
  2771. Whole episode about him
    4
  2772. They're were mostly school exercises. I think they were just letting bricks be bricks.
    4
  2773. Nah it wasn't an allegory - they were attempting actual substantial transmutation. The "spiritual" stuff came much later
    4
  2774. This is a channel that cherishes critical thinking.
    4
  2775.  @vulpixie4339  a literal emerald one? No, but I cover many versions of it in this episode
    4
  2776. Thanks! All possible because of the support I get from you all!
    4
  2777. like spock with the goatee?
    4
  2778. Not really, the Talmud is a commentary on the Mishnah
    4
  2779. If you're going to stretch, stretch big :)
    4
  2780. I'm absolutely interested in this topic!
    4
  2781. Nope totally different etiology
    4
  2782. You can be guaranteed that no gold of mine is getting near any damn green lion ;)
    4
  2783. Ur-text - the first version
    4
  2784. Not cold, just any iron apparently
    4
  2785. Those categories hadn't been invented yet
    4
  2786. :) minyan!
    4
  2787. Good point!
    4
  2788. Why do people pray?
    4
  2789. Always recommend the NOAB
    4
  2790. Yep, allegedly it's supposed to say something like that but it looks like randomly oriented letters even. Neat though!
    4
  2791. Mayhaps
    4
  2792. I'm glad it was a useful episode - thanks for including it!
    4
  2793. Oh I'm biased, I just try to keep it in check.
    4
  2794. Did I dismiss them? Or did I just observe that a lot of younger guys, especially younger guys interested in history, especially on YouTube tend to conflate military history with all of history. Obviously military history is incredibly important.
    4
  2795. Shoot me a message on Patreon, I can share the script if you like!
    4
  2796. s p o o k y
    4
  2797. According to Augustine that's how all demons work. Smart guy, him - pears aside.
    4
  2798. The brill de occulta was literally on screen
    4
  2799. Nah, my Latin is competent but by no means expert level.
    4
  2800. Welcome back, we have such marvelous sights to show you
    4
  2801. But it isn't - that's literally why you know about it at all and why I have actual published books from the 17th century about it. It's less occult than cookbooks of the time. Yes, we know more about alchemy than 17th century culinary practices. It boggles the mind that this idea continues to persist despite ample evidence to the contrary.
    4
  2802. ha! glad you appreciate my 'sense' of humor!
    4
  2803. She's bound by the force of the incantation
    4
  2804. When we do a in person Esoterica event - which is going to happen at some point - I'll be happy to DM a pop-up adventure!
    4
  2805. Sadly no - though idel does summarize some of it
    4
  2806. Randolph for sure
    4
  2807. This -^
    4
  2808. Both Harold Ramis z"l and Sarah Michelle Gellar were/is Jewish :)
    4
  2809. Let me know how that comes out in the wash ;)
    4
  2810. It definitely wasn't just the Romans. And the evidence is pretty solid at this point. Though, if were being honest, the Romans were just as horrible in other ways.
    4
  2811. I think that was what I was going for - glad it 'set the mood' so to speak!
    4
  2812. And Eddy "ears free" Kelley
    4
  2813. Yep, will get to Luria at some point
    4
  2814. Noted! Thank!
    4
  2815.  @amanitamuscaria7500  yeah, you'd think but Kelley was a walking red flag in so many ways but also really 'talented' at skrying, for lack of a better word. Dali was a fascist turd who got his friends killed, a talented draftsman, though.
    4
  2816. Definitely not
    4
  2817. Hi Eran - You see this especially in art during the Renaissance. I would consult Moses the Egyptian - 978-0674587397 & The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus - 978-9004370814 for more discussion of this topic.
    4
  2818. Awesome - thanks for sharing. Hope folks the content interesting. I have other videos on angel magic as well, for instance the Sword of Moses.
    4
  2819. And pharmaceutical medicine
    4
  2820. Japanese Puzzles boxes!
    4
  2821. Deleuze systematically misread Scotus for his own metaphysical interests - that's not taking Scotus' ideas seriously. Trust me, there were plenty of philosophers, especially in the Catholic world, taking scholasticism very seriously. I mean, that's literally the time period in which the critical edition of Scotus' work were being produced.
    4
  2822. About what?
    4
  2823. With a non-kosher wine base - no, it would not be kosher according to traditional poskim. In addition horse hair filters were (and are used) to filter the final absinthe. As for the kashrus dealing with wine, personally I find the halacha just basically bigoted and unless there is clearly a case where the wine is being used for avodah zarah I tend to be very liberal when it comes to wine, wine bases, etc. Of course, consult your local rabbi, conscience, etc.
    4
  2824. These beings are far too powerful for me to comment about them here.
    4
  2825. No just my lack of expertise
    4
  2826. These are probably the line numbers in the original Greek Text.
    4
  2827. Do you want to be rich ?
    4
  2828. I wouldn't trust that story too much
    4
  2829. this
    4
  2830. No, this one is an actual historical document
    4
  2831. I imagine the best among them would just be awed and proud of our development in understanding nature.
    4
  2832. Wow - long time no see - would be great to catch up ! Contact me over at my website if you can !
    4
  2833.  @Quantum-Omega  Also the Vatican library is very accessible, with a few exceptions (especially recent papal papers). There isn't anything ~ s p o o k y ~ in there.
    4
  2834. Yeah, way worse than just spaulding
    4
  2835. Consult your local rabbi.
    4
  2836. Aniconic
    4
  2837. Glad you find the content rewarding - thanks!
    4
  2838. Y'all weh
    4
  2839. It's from Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.1
    4
  2840. Those are from Patrons who get early access to the episodes!
    4
  2841. Dog
    4
  2842. Nah, just jute cord for making a bird's nest to start the fire after the char cloth catches a spark
    4
  2843. Of all the people I know, you, my friend, as are an "added Eldritch effect" connoisseur :)
    4
  2844. Absinthe & rye whiskey :)
    4
  2845. There is virtually no evidence for it being an historical event. And, generally, I refer academically to any story involving gods, angels, spirits, etc., as myths.
    4
  2846. I don't believe in any gods
    4
  2847.  @ron1313  Yep.
    4
  2848. Still not a good of a long con as religion
    4
  2849. It'd be great to do some dnd material!
    4
  2850. These aren't demons possessing people it's dybbuks. Also why assume either are real?
    4
  2851. I suspect that he was legendary and not a real person
    4
  2852. Happens to the best of us
    4
  2853. Yeah just making up stuff is a time honored tradition
    4
  2854. I like big books and I can't lie
    4
  2855. Solidarity with trans witches ! ✊
    4
  2856. Thanks Thomas - yeah, the Lesser Key is a really complex text and sorting through it takes some work. Glad you found the episode interesting!
    4
  2857. Some probably did but many didn't - I didn't.
    4
  2858. Yes, f*ck the fascist pvv
    4
  2859. Can I just say how happy I am not to have a dog in that fight ;)
    4
  2860. If that's true - which it most certainly isn't - it was a huge failure. Ask Bar Kokhba.
    4
  2861. I hope to get the third part done sometime later this summer or early fall - thanks for watching!
    4
  2862. Yep, they are opposites. The writer(s) of these texts clearly knew the difference and employ yerida/yordei for reasons we don't fully understand.
    4
  2863. Yeah, there should be a term for long-debunked but still popular theories
    4
  2864. On it's on? No, you'd need a reliable copy of the Clavicula Salomonis and good luck finding one of those
    4
  2865. Thanks, brother - got your channel on the shout out list. Hope you are well and let's do that Kabbalah episode soon!
    4
  2866. Accidentally made it public early - coming next week!
    4
  2867. Dr. Puca and Dr. Andrew Henry, yes!
    4
  2868. Apparently
    4
  2869. What are you talking about? I'm visibly Jewish.
    4
  2870. Probably
    4
  2871. I think it is probably a coincidence, here Summaria just means something like glossary. But interesting connecting!
    4
  2872. Aaron leitch could
    4
  2873. I literally put a link in the description to a full report of the matter and said as much.
    4
  2874. Subjunctive moods matter
    4
  2875. Kabbalah began in 13th century ce France and Spain. The Amorites vanished from history in the c. 12th bce.
    4
  2876. No
    4
  2877. Absolutely support yourself first and foremost. I'll always try to find a way to produce this content
    4
  2878. Definitely not
    4
  2879. probably just general ancient (and modern) misogyny. It's endemic.
    4
  2880. Wonderful - hope you find the text as interesting as I did!
    4
  2881. Thanks! Hope I do justice by it!
    4
  2882. Not at him, his book was great for its time but scholarship has moved on
    4
  2883. And even then, ancient atomism is non-empirical even if it is fundamentally materialist - so not really 'modern' even if they want to claim it.
    4
  2884.  @Eman_Puedama  Maybe the least scary thing he believes
    4
  2885. Historically speaking yes
    4
  2886. Thank you kindly!
    4
  2887. Yep!
    4
  2888. Yep, one day! Thanks for commenting!
    4
  2889.  @brunolopes7311  ;) pretty dark magic though !
    4
  2890. Nope
    4
  2891. THACO
    4
  2892. My ancestors came from Lithuania - litvaks! Thanks for the kind words!
    4
  2893. I don't really listen to podcasts but I've heard nothing but good things about it!
    4
  2894. All of us are - 90% of the book is missing. Reincarnation it is then !
    4
  2895. Yep, going to do an episode on the origins of Yahweh at some point soon
    4
  2896. It's a great topic and glad to help to get solid, scholarly information out there in the jungle of 'alternative facts.'
    4
  2897. Moses was a myth
    4
  2898. Such a kind comment, thanks friend! I'm so happy to make any kind of impact and comments like these give me so much heart fuel. Thanks so much and Happy New Year!
    4
  2899. Interesting, yes. Historically accurate about alchemy, well....
    4
  2900. The best text for this material is Meyer and Smith - Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power - 978-0060655785
    4
  2901. There were certainly folks magic users and 'cunning folk' - were there witches making pacts with the devil to overturn Christianity? Very, very unlikely.
    4
  2902. Consult your local rabbi ;)
    4
  2903. What you did there....I see it.
    4
  2904. Technically it isn't even listed yet - only for Patreon folks :)
    4
  2905. 🥇- how's that heresy class coming?
    4
  2906. This channel focuses on pre-1800 Western Esotericism and there is a plenty of content on Jung. I may cover his works on alchemy, but mostly as a cautionary tale.
    4
  2907. Basically Jung systematically misread alchemical texts in the interests of making them conform to his hackneyed psychological theories derailing solid scholarship on historical alchemy for over two generations now. The damage he did won't be corrected for centuries.
    4
  2908. 666 or 616 depends on if you were using the gematria of the Greek or Hebrew alphabet and the difference in the respective manuscript tradition. Scholars are pretty sure that it referred to Nero in both cases.
    4
  2909. Glad you enjoyed it!
    4
  2910. Yeah, bad Latin hurts us all
    4
  2911. Did you watch the episode?
    4
  2912. Probably not - there is tons already on Thomas
    4
  2913. Hi Rob, I have only a cursory knowledge of the folks you mentioned (can't know it all!) but I think it's wholly possible to be both a practitioner and a scholar. I would just suggest that both fields have certain standards and expectations that don't always overlap. There are also interesting examples - I am thinking of Tanya Luhrmann here - of scholars who actually become practitioners to better understand the material itself. So I think there is plenty of room for very fruitful cross-pollination, so to speak. Hope this answer helps!
    4
  2914. Many thanks for the support and kind words!
    4
  2915. Thanks brother! Glad to have the opportunity to to let me these genius women shine!
    4
  2916. Yeah, until around the period of the exile
    4
  2917. In the same way that metal is so absolutely silly
    4
  2918. It's more of a straight up dig at those that think that quantum mechanics justifies their cooky, nonsense beliefs
    4
  2919. Let me know if it works - got some questions for Marty
    4
  2920. Fun story but it's a myth
    4
  2921. I like my whimsy concrete ;)
    4
  2922. My man, hope you are well. Let's keep building together - so proud to know and share creation space with you!
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  2923. I doubt the university is going anywhere. But some of us are really trying a novel experiment in education and accessibility. We'll see what comes of it.
    4
  2924.  @tedhand6237  No, not really. 'Gnosticism' doesn't even really hold up these days.
    4
  2925. Thanks so much - really wanna chat soon after I beat this cold!
    4
  2926. Thanks for the kind donation!
    4
  2927. Total coincidence
    4
  2928. Ha! That would be a great one :)
    4
  2929. Live for Patrons of the channel!
    4
  2930. See comment above -^
    4
  2931. No, none.
    4
  2932. Sure but you'll only get so far
    4
  2933. I doubt it. The singular predictor for witchcraft prosecution was poverty. The priesthood, if nothing else, was a job and often a well paying one. Now, necromancy on the other hand.
    4
  2934. Right - I was mostly pointing out that guardian angels aren't so much a Jewish concept (though they do appear here and there - I'm told the concept is more popular in Chabad) to point to my argument that I don't think the text is of Jewish origin (or at least most of it isn't - book II might be). As for the efficacy of the ritual, I'll leave that to others.
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  2935. Sounds spurious especially considering there were no witches to learn from
    4
  2936. Mario!
    4
  2937. In fact, I'm planning an episode on Yukio Mishima's esoteric analysis of weight lifting ;) where my lifters at?
    4
  2938. I mean, "Plato" was his wrestling name. But yeah, think hard, lift hard.
    4
  2939. True of most Jews in my experience
    4
  2940.  @Kmurray9244  Absolutely - I wish the quality were better myself and thanks for watching !
    4
  2941. Or paper or silk - goods made it through trade but, again, there's no evidence of daoist concepts in European alchemical theory and practice
    4
  2942. Or they share a common ancestor, regardless I'm still doubting it has anything to do with Peter Abano
    4
  2943. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for supporting the channel! Maria was really was an amazing person!
    4
  2944. Not just him but that whole car of 🤡 s
    4
  2945. I'm Jewish and follow the teachings of r. Mordecai Kaplan, z"l
    4
  2946. Definitely prog
    4
  2947. You're talking to a former industrial wall to wall trade union organizer
    4
  2948. I don't think anyone worshipped Pazuzu, but they did use amulets of him to scare off other demons, especially his sister Lamashtu.
    4
  2949. That's the one with the underwater soccer, right ?
    4
  2950. Thanks for this kind donation!
    4
  2951. My spin-off channel
    4
  2952. Yeah, if you live in Western Europe you are probably only a couple hours drive to one.
    4
  2953. Not a Ginsberg fan, really
    4
  2954. Except it's highly radioactive and will quickly decay
    4
  2955. That brought a smile to my face - thanks for letting me know! I hope they enjoyed it. When I gave that lecture there were some young people in the audience and a couple even asked me some really fascinating questions afterwards. Glad this episode was interesting to you two!
    4
  2956. Any mark with enough money to buy it
    4
  2957.  @JustinMBailey  Y O U W O U L D K N O W !
    4
  2958. Yep, sometime soon...ish
    4
  2959. Ian Cutis Demiurge DM doing his weird dance in the center of all being, eternally.
    4
  2960. It was kinda a pun on the Alexamenos graffito, but no sacred cows, horses, donkeys or Jesuses here
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  2961. These are basically from the symphonia
    4
  2962. Oh no it was horrible
    4
  2963. It's an ordeal to find anything.... especially in the middle
    4
  2964. reply comment.
    4
  2965. prexactly
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  2966. That's a gas and I owe you an email!
    4
  2967. Couldn't truckin help it
    4
  2968. Thanks so much for taking the time to write out this really kind and thoughtful comment. I'm very happy that I can reach a wide audience with this content, especially folks like yourself. Hope you are well and stick around for the future of the channel!
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  2969. I don't summon spirits and I think hell is nonsense.
    4
  2970. seconds late ;)
    4
  2971. Sh!t...I knew I forgot something :) Yeah, ditto on the paleography. I got to teach it a few times mostly to art students - would love to do so again!
    4
  2972. John Dee Only Fans
    4
  2973. Did the historical protocols under review call for that? @lorentsmuller 
    4
  2974. Making absinthe involves distillation which is typically illegal without proper licenses, etc. But yep, part of this bottle will be sold for samples. More on that soon!
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  2975. The guy's a genius there's no doubt about that and when he's right he's right and when he's wrong...well he's wrong
    4
  2976. Thanks - Doing my best to make quality content on these topics, they certainly deserve it.
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  2977. It didn't. Egyptian swtẖ isn't related to Hebrew שָׂטָן
    4
  2978. Prexactly
    4
  2979. Yeah I'm going to make a video about how I think Angela is a great example of someone on the left hand path
    4
  2980. This sounds like one of those questions that people at philosophy conferences ask that turned me into an anti-intellectual.
    4
  2981. "giant hard on for ontology" ✔️
    4
  2982. I got bad news for you...
    4
  2983. Book recommendations in the last episode of the series
    4
  2984. I am partial to the Koren edition of the Talmud, especially with all the illustrations.
    4
  2985. Ha you totally did ! On a cut and hunger pains are a struggle!
    4
  2986. That'd be the one
    4
  2987. It's occult because the the actual art was hidden from non-practitioners through code symbolism and obscure esoteric writing
    4
  2988.  @officialvigilante4578  alchemy only works on that presumption
    4
  2989. Intoxication, if you drink enough of it
    4
  2990. Yep, at some point!
    4
  2991. Yeah, but that's fiction. Not fiction pretending to history like all that other drivel
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  2992. Thanks ! I'll keep 'em coming! Seems plausible. To me, I think that, barring the religious stuff, someone could have told me they were written by syncretistic middle-StoicsPlatonists and I would have been fooled.
    4
  2993. Thanks for watching ! See if this one works - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iShqG1gJavUXVKVnk2d1UzQVE/view?usp=sharing
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  2994. He's a great guy and his books are fantastic resources.
    4
  2995. Was a fun one to make!
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  2996. probably more necromancer grandmas out there than we think!
    4
  2997. Probably not
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  2998. "Yahweh" is just an academic vocalization for the god of ancient Israel.
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  2999. Yeah, I have to rotate the shelves to de-sag them every once in a while.
    4
  3000. Isabella Cortese's alchemy book has all kinds of cosmetic recipes
    4
  3001.  @mazyar_  Right - the "assertion" is nothing new, but assertions aren't evidence - what is lacking here is solid evidence from the cult of Mithras itself. The testimonies of the early Christians is notoriously unreliable and there is little evidence that they had much access into the inner working of the cult and were happy to invent all manner of things to suit their polemical purposes. Christians built their churches atop basically all religious structures they 'defeated' from Aztec temples to Norse sites. That doesn't indicate influence. My argument is not that Christianity wasn't influenced by Mithraism - it may very well have been - my argument that is that we have basically no evidence for the inner workings of the cult, it's mythology or ritual. Without having that evidence - which 19th 'scholars' were happy to invent and contemporary people are happy to repeat without checking their sources [looking at you, Bill Maher] - we just can't point to influence. What contemporary, scholarly sources provide evidence for the inner workings of the cult either ritually or mythologically beyond very broad speculation? Without that concrete data the question of influence is just speculation.
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  3002. Not really, the 7 Catholic texts are pretty tame compared to say the apocalypse of john
    4
  3003. The Israelites definitely consider it a place under the ground or in the earth.
    4
  3004. RIP, Z"L
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  3005. nope
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  3006. Yep, it's a fantastic book and it's in my recommended readings
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  3007. Watching and commenting is supporting!
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  3008. I don't think I said that but what you suggest is possible - the text obviously ended up in Germany, in what seems to be early on in its recension history. Maybe even produced in Germany by a Sephardi Jew, the squares at least. I don't recall any of the squares displaying non-Sephardi Hebrew. I just wonder if we aren't dealing with a few different texts, with different recensions, etc., edited together as we now know them.
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  3009. Or at least trying to argue that mystification without intellectual rigor is honestly just a poorer version of mysticism.
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  3010. I probably read samekh 10 times researching this episode - if they're buried that deep then they might as well not be there, at least from a scholastic perspective
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  3011. I'm sure Tolkien got his rings from Plato and Germanic lore.
    4
  3012.  @shemuelthesabbatian1254  I think we mean different things :) Also, I suspect that Abulafia will laugh last - his texts have been formally incorporated into post-Lurianic mainstream Kabbalah (in both the masorti and haredi streams) and the sabbatean movement is basically dead in it's homeland, further there aren't even basic texts translated from Hebrew yet for even sympathetic folks to build anything with. Even בעקבות משיח is virtually impossible to find outside of specialist libraries. The sabbatean shadow is long but I suspect the Abulafian will endure.
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  3013. Or such myths were common
    4
  3014. Yep!
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  3015. Yep, probably!
    4
  3016. The Walking Sea People
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  3017. Prada
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  3018. Yep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TW1PzrkdAY&t=1s
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  3019. You are supposed to spend at least 2 hours a day studying scripture including the Talmud. It would have been a gas to see Crowley bent over the Vilna Shas studying masechta Gittin or something!
    4
  3020. Ha - the rabbi holes we go down :)
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  3021.  @xxmadmanxx9882  Certainly true but probably not secret, ancient books. The Vatican library, for instance, is actually surprisingly accessible.
    4
  3022. I can certainly try to make it happen!
    4
  3023. Anubis VPN
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  3024. Not really+ everyone talks a big game about "being so close" but I'll start listening when they pull a talent of gold out of a trench or something
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  3025.  @M-CH_  Right, Africa for sure but I think that is a very different phenomenon. I guess I should have said not-utterly-toys-in-the-attic people :)
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  3026. I don't think there's any evidence of anyone being able to become an akh while physically alive
    4
  3027. Probably not
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  3028. I wouldn't call it reverence. I would call it basic human respect. Which makes it all the more pity that it's even noticeable.
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  3029. You're right I really need to watch that show - never got around to it. That and Cowboy Bebop.
    4
  3030. Nah, it's a reference to the oracle at Delphi.
    4
  3031. And, to be clear, this question about alchemy isn't merely academic - it goes to the heart of the actual history of alchemy, hermetic philosophy, etc.
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  3032. Thanks - doing my best to produce high quality, scholarly content.
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  3033. It's an interesting theory - surely the new age movement is reacting to this 'boys club' environment for sure.
    4
  3034. Ha! It was easy, it's just so silly!
    4
  3035. "lord of the sorcerers" = Band Name
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  3036.  @savantofillusions  ?
    4
  3037. They're Japanese puzzle boxes!
    4
  3038. #3 gets it
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  3039. I wish you well on your spiritual path - hope this content is useful for you!
    4
  3040. Yet again the Internet delivers
    4
  3041. "hmmm....needs more AZOTH!"
    4
  3042. Send my regards to your father and many thanks !
    4
  3043. Controversy sells
    4
  3044. Yeah a lot going on in this episode
    4
  3045. Cookie Monster has entered the chat
    4
  3046. Thanks - It's interesting but not quite germane to the channel. You should check out Angela's Symposium, she's an expert on the subject. Tell her I sent ya :)
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  3047. Ugh, I guess
    4
  3048. needs more cocaine
    4
  3049. May his name be blotted out ;)
    4
  3050. "The past isn't dead - It isn't even past." - Faulkner
    4
  3051. Yep, once in a blue moon or so. This one was literally on a blue moon, so yeah.
    4
  3052. I always wanted to make an outfit with the Jew hat and yellow circle to make it really uncomfortable. "Oh this is the part where you have to blame us for poisoning your wells and burn a bunch of us on evidence derived from torture. " The middle ages - fun for all ages!
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  3053. Wolves in the throneroom maybe though I think my favorite black metal record of all time is probably dead as dreams by weakling
    4
  3054. Thanks - let me know what you think!
    4
  3055. He's using a folk etymology of the term meaning "to tear (children) apart" but yes,
    4
  3056.  @She_Nanigans  When isn't it Halloween episodes around here?
    4
  3057. It doesn't code Solomonic to me - honestly I think it's a mishmash of lots of things (the magic squares and various spells, like the magic monkey one) but I think this core of the HGA/Sar Torah is where my primary interest lies.
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  3058. If only icke and his ilk had a fraction of the spiritual genius of the gnostics
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  3059. May we all have a sweet year!
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  3060. My pleasure - thanks for such a kind comment!
    4
  3061. Yeah - had a recent growth spurt and I appreciate it! Hope you're doing well and the movie is coming along !
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  3062. In the development of the apocalyptic, yes
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  3063. Definitely not
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  3064. https://www.youtube.com/@antikemagie
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  3065. Me too, price of doing business. Best of luck!
    4
  3066. Maybe, but we operate on evidence on this channel not speculation
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  3067. 86 = אלֹהים / הטבע
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  3068. Thanks for this thoughtful complement. Mostly I left out Ibn Tammim because his commentary is so much like Sa'adias to my mind with the others focusing on a couple different angles of the SY early on in the commentary lit. Re: Weiss - I agree it's not conclusive. I would't wage my next pay check on anything conclusive about SY. I was a hardcore Wasserstrom fan for a long while - I'm sure I'll change again. Hayman: I think we need a strong and weak sense of redaction here. A macro/micro argument could work but it seems like even the arrangement of those microforms had some semi-logical arrangement by the 10th century - given the geographic spread of the text by then. That's why I like using 299 and checking it against the reconstructed text knowing it's all a bit of conjecture. For me, I'm don't really need there to be 'the text' of the SY either for academic or religious reasons. The 'redaction,' and I mean that in a weak sense here, is just a mess and I don't think that mess is going to be / can be cleaned up. I think it is a divine name as it says he sealed it "בשמו הגדול..." so I think the mystery stands. What is even odd-er to me, is that it is a 3 letter name and not a 2 letter name given the bi-consonantal linguistic theory that follows. Again, thanks for such a thoughtful comment!
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  3069. Neither seem like places I would want to spend an eternity.
    4
  3070. Glad to inspire and I wish you the best on your journey - Good luck on your exams!
    4
  3071. A human leader who will bring political world peace.
    4
  3072. Seek and ye shall find
    4
  3073.  @hallroney  that rascal!
    4
  3074. Yep, melizelda
    4
  3075. You mean a punctus elevatus ;)
    4
  3076. Thanks for the publicity!
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  3077. Nah it's another culture and hundreds of years earlier
    4
  3078. Yep, this and the Sefer HaRazim along with Arabic / Byzantine magic - which I'll be covering at some point - basically form the evidence for that bridge.
    4
  3079. You get in my line of work and the bar for whom you're willing to call crazy gets pretty high
    4
  3080. We're going to do our best to make it happen
    4
  3081. Ish
    4
  3082. It implies, not proves.
    4
  3083. They call me that....because it's my name ;)
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  3084. Glad you enjoyed it - I was so thrilled to make this episode. Voices like her's just don't get any representation and I'm just grateful to be able to platform them here. Though, tbh, it shouldn't only be on a channel about Esoterica that voices like this get lifted up.
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  3085. I'm happy that folks are finding the content worthwhile!
    4
  3086.  @nocterniaobscura  Hopefully it will be good - we will see. Thanks for taking the time to let me know about occultism in Greece! Such an ancient history with so much to draw from I'm sure the developments there will be interesting. Best of luck with your channel as well!
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  3087. I'm thinking about it!
    4
  3088. Thanks for this kind donation!
    4
  3089.  @sloppycabi  :) me too friend, me too! I miss those days!
    4
  3090. Deez what?
    4
  3091.  @TheModernHermeticist  Sounds really interesting - I'd love to! It's a really interesting topic: from Philo to Isaac Israeli but also the impact of Neo-Platonism on the early strata of Kabbalah as well. Really interesting material. Let's chat via email or skype or something? Would also just like to chat more about your research!
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  3092. Session 9 is the best film I've seen filmed there. Just an amazing film in general.
    4
  3093. I think it's just to make Glaucon's point that the unjust life is better than the just one and that justice isn't just in itself and good in its effects as Socrates suggests.
    4
  3094. The material is just too rich not to have at least some fun with it - thanks for watching!
    4
  3095. yeah, human beings are amazing and then shockingly stupid.
    4
  3096. Me too, brother - I've been sick for like 3 weeks now. Summer colds are the worst.
    4
  3097. Thanks for this kind donation!
    4
  3098. He definitely was never referred to by R. Akiva. That's Elisha ben Abuyah.
    4
  3099. Don't know if it's possible but I'd enjoy being in contact with Damien!
    4
  3100. I agree, it seems silly.
    4
  3101. Yep, by El - I mention it
    4
  3102. Doing my best - check out the description for more in depth readings - many thanks for the kind words!
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  3103. No Yahweh and Baal we're always distinct and separate deities
    4
  3104. Thanks, friend! Glad you found us!
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  3105.  @2tehnik  It only complete survives in Latin, though the translation isn't great.
    4
  3106.  @2tehnik  no, only books 4 and 5 I think. Not sure if it was made from the Greek or the Latin
    4
  3107. These texts will make us all wiser
    4
  3108. Wow - many thanks for the generous donation!
    4
  3109. Oil and solvent container for a mosin nagant
    4
  3110. Bad grammar, that's what
    4
  3111. None of it is 'real' but I don't have much of a dog in that fight.
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  3112. No idea who gog and Magog we're supposed to be but they show up in Islamic escatology too
    4
  3113. Me and Atun Shei did a running commentary on it last Halloween - check it out on his channel!
    4
  3114. Critical thinking cult
    4
  3115. I don't really know anything about them
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  3116. Not really. The sefirot are first mentioned in SY but they aren't divine emanations until centuries later in the Sefer Bahir.
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  3117.  @Samavanzi  metaphysical sure but not "spiritual" in any modern sense
    4
  3118. Yes, that is an accurate assessment.
    4
  3119. Great tips! Though this channel doesn't aim to be introductory in character - lots of other great channels for that !
    4
  3120. It's kinda my job but, yeah, I read for several hours a day usually - and there is still a ton left to do!
    4
  3121. Keep my speculations short sweet and to the point
    4
  3122. Gold ain't cheap and these cats were pretty solid experimentalists
    4
  3123. I'd say Yahweh laughs last, so Yahweh laughs best.
    4
  3124.  @richardallen7959  via my website
    4
  3125. The things we find missing in others' content is an opportunity to make our own.
    4
  3126. Of course, otherwise it's just all so sanctimonious and boring
    4
  3127. yeah, that's the guy
    4
  3128. I'm not interested in trashing any faith tradition but you can imagine that as the story develops Christian treatment of Jews isn't exactly a cheery story
    4
  3129. Absolutely - and the Templars
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  3130. If you say so ;)
    4
  3131. I take myths seriously not literally
    4
  3132. Sadly, I just don't have the capacity to do any reviews!
    4
  3133. Thanks, my job is to be as accurate as I can to the facts. My personal beliefs just don't and shouldn't factor into that.
    4
  3134. No there is just a god called yareakh
    4
  3135. Yep, if you can't beat them become them
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  3136. Glad you found it worth a watch! Much of alchemical symbolism is like this - once you get it it makes total sense. The alchemists were often hiding their secrets in plain sight - the best place to hide something. Hope you stick around!
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  3137. I didn't know he could skate - real talent there. My kids love Elmo 🤩
    4
  3138. Glad you like that stuff - I enjoy making it a ton!
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  3139. Thanks for asking the real questions!
    4
  3140. The entire third part of the Communist manifesto is just them complaining about other socialists
    4
  3141. I've heard worse
    4
  3142. God doesn't change because I'm doubtful any such being is real.
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  3143. Thanks and I agree, this stuff is super fascinating.
    4
  3144. Basically as long as you're comfortable the books are safe so basically any house with a modern HVAC system
    4
  3145. Yep, coming at some point!
    4
  3146. And cuckold, fwiw
    4
  3147. Might be a loanword from Old Norse
    4
  3148. Thanks for the donation but I don't have any recommendations on that topic.
    4
  3149. narcissism of minor differences
    4
  3150. Not anytime soon, but eventually. That dastardly incel
    4
  3151. It's a neat legend. It's also a pity that Talmud isn't read more - it's full of cool lore like this.
    4
  3152. I would have to know a lot more mathematical physics before I even thought to do that
    4
  3153. Sure, this is an Arbys
    4
  3154. Thanks fun to practice Aramaic though!
    4
  3155. No, aside from Sefer Hekhalot, which only existed in a very obscure Hebrew text, none of these texts were known at that time.
    4
  3156. I think he was forthcoming - just seems like he, like me, just developed an itch since we were kids.
    4
  3157. Yeah, my 3 year old fell down and acquired two bobos in the background of filming this episode!
    4
  3158. She basically traveled where Jewish communities went but, likely, for the reasons you discuss.
    4
  3159. Planned
    4
  3160. Oil-Solvent can for a mosin nagant
    4
  3161. Because it's a contemporary invention in the folklore. Can you point to a pre 19th century text linking Cain and vampires? This is an academic channel and evidence is the name of the game.
    4
  3162. Slowly as in less than a year for the majority of Jews to adopt him as Messiah. I'm not sure I'd call that "slowly"
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  3163. He certainly had to role to play
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  3164. Nope, those notions didn't really enter the conversation until the 19th century.
    4
  3165. Started lifting, lost weight, ring didn't fit on my ring finger anymore
    4
  3166. Sorry not sorry conspiroids
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  3167. Yeah, that's more d&d and Vidya games
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  3168. At this point, I think there is compelling evidence that the creator of the squares was a Sephardi, learned Jew with some experience with alchemy. I think that the Hebrew manuscript of the text was written or translated by a learned Jew and isn't merely a translation. I am not convinced that the text as we have it was originally one text by a single author.
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  3169. If only it were demons! Then a simple banishing would fix all this - sadly, it's worse than demons: It's nature and gross human incompetence.
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  3170. No, very doubtful are very indirectly via Greek philosophy
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  3171. I wouldn't say orthodox. Not to get too much into my personal beliefs but I would identify as a Reconstructionist very much under teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan , z"l.
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  3172. Sadly, it didn't work out :(
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  3173. Interesting idea!
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  3174. Same here - I was really taken with it from the first viewing, and I agree with your analysis, re: real demons/angels in the film. Good luck with your spiritual journey and thanks for your thoughtful comments!
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  3175. Absolutely, really am trying to get solid scholarly information out there on these topics. Thanks for watching!
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  3176. Thanks!
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  3177. Scholars refer to satanic practice which aped the panic narrative "pseudo-satanism" and it did exist but there is no evidence of coordinated satanism iver which the panic occurred existing.
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  3178. Oh they can believe what they like - it's all made up as far as I'm concerned - I'm just saying there's little evidence they even know the original concepts in the original literature. The constant mispronouncing and spelling errors of even basic Hebrew/Aramaic is embarrassing much less ubiquitous confusion on basic kabbalistic concepts they rely on to build "qabbalah" is conspicuous to say the least.
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  3179. Though, Agrippa never claimed illumination / enlightened so it's not a perfect fit
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  3180. I'll bring some to kz if you're coming in person!
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  3181. With their powers combined
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  3182. Watch to the end?
    4
  3183. Check out the books I recommend
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  3184. yeah, not sure I went for that one and not 'chas v'shalom' but that's what came out. Wasn't feeling super talmudy I guess.
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  3185. Yep, I agree.
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  3186. Already did
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  3187. Def get Blake vibes....not so much Foucault though.
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  3188. It's as a good a guess as any. Wachter first makes this argument in around 1699 in two texts, one of which only survives in a Russian translation, and seems to think that the Kabbalists held that God was Nature and that Spinoza is 'unveiling' this Kabbalistic ideas (better, error, to his mind) unto the world without all the trapping of Hebrew, etc. So far as I can tell this seems to misread Kabbalistic ideas more than it does Spinoza in the end. While the sefirot do 'reach down' to malkhut which is our cosmos, at least in some Kabbalistic schools, to my knowledge no Kabbalist I've ever read argues that God should be identified with nature. Even the later, more Hasidic linking of הַטֶבַע (ha-teva), Nature, and אֱלֹהִים (Elohim), God via gematria doesn't, to my knowledge, appear in the Zohar, Sha'Are Orah, Etz HaHayim, etc. I think its just more of Kabbalah functioning as a kind of cipher for X-tians to extract mystical secrets from when they want that or to blame as the origin of heresy and heterodoxy when that seems useful.
    4
  3189. Dooooooo it \m/
    4
  3190. Thanks for the kind words!
    4
  3191.  @hermestrismagistos3145  Trust me, I'm always chomping at the bit to discuss my ideas, political and otherwise. While I don't hide my beliefs on the channel I also just don't want to make me and my beliefs the star of the show. The content matters, at least on the channel, not so much me and and my beliefs.
    4
  3192. Go ahead and call the ambulance in advance
    4
  3193. Ashlag was very strict in regards to Torah observance
    4
  3194. Probably not, Baal vs Yahweh was settled hundreds of years before the combat with Satan
    4
  3195. This is an academic channel.
    4
  3196. All narratives about gods, spirits, etc., Are by definition myths
    4
  3197. Absolutely - thanks for watching!
    4
  3198. Thanks for the comment. This isn't an introductory channel but this video is actually introductory - knowing transmission history of the text is basic and it isn't sporadic: it's an actual drill down into the actual history of the text and its ideas. That's what shocking, is that an actual introductory level examination of this text - the actual scholarly literature is very technical - is still too much. But, I'd rather overdo it, and invite a re-watch, than decrease the depth to really appreciate this text.
    4
  3199. Doooooo it!
    4
  3200. You and me both
    4
  3201. Aka the temple
    4
  3202. There's no evidence he owned or used it, same with that gold watchtower disk. His diaries make it redundantly clear his skrying stones were small crystal balls. The obsidian mirror just makes no sense and he never mentions it. I suspect these items were all created well after Dee was dead.
    4
  3203. You coulda just said "Durkheim"
    4
  3204. Sounds surreal - though I don't think the Sumerian gods were 'reptilian looking' - most just look like people.
    4
  3205. It's possible but scholars all agree this is his work based on numerous sets of analysis. This is an academic channel and I follow scholarly consensus
    4
  3206. Nope
    4
  3207.  @yentl8638  this is an academic channel
    4
  3208. It's the standard theology in most circles
    4
  3209. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    4
  3210. The latter
    4
  3211. Finally - messiah, here we come. Took em long enough
    4
  3212. Thanks so much for saying so - sequel coming out later today!
    4
  3213. Yeah, YT just takes like 30% so it seems like a real rip-off.
    4
  3214. Depends on the discipline and where you are talking about
    4
  3215. I might be down reach out to them!
    4
  3216. Both wonderful volumes!
    4
  3217. This is an academic channel - we aren't in the year of any "lord" from an academic perspective.
    4
  3218. It's the most commonly used through the world, hence using it and making it ecumenical. No one denies it's based on the Gregorian calendar, but that system of reckoning isn't fit for non-religious, academic use. Jesus of Nazareth isn't my or billions of other peoples' 'lord' or 'christ' hence AD/BC not making sense for academic use.
    4
  3219. Allah is the spin off
    4
  3220. It's simple - Scotus' whole project was for maintaining divine transcendence
    4
  3221. Right but that's a backronym
    4
  3222. Yeah, we don't do that around here.
    4
  3223. Different documents - one is a real, historical document the other is made up stuff from the 20th century
    4
  3224. Not these, though later images yes
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  3225. ;)
    4
  3226. Her and other young scholars - would love to host other folks!
    4
  3227. Fun and important one to make, for sure!
    4
  3228. Glad you like them!
    4
  3229. Yep, it's called esoterica for a reason ;)
    4
  3230. Good luck with the writing and thanks !
    4
  3231.  @derekowenjr3599  Tell me more about this "serpent race" - I'm curious and you seem to know a lot about it!
    4
  3232. They might be having a bit of a PR crisis.
    4
  3233. Depends on your interests - I'll be doing an episode on academic study and my story at some point in the future. Stay tuned!
    4
  3234. Icke is worse than a tool.... he's like the toolbox.
    4
  3235. Ain't really a lot of people like her, tbh
    4
  3236. No idea why..... no none ;)
    4
  3237. Ha! Yeah, there was probably some overlap there.
    4
  3238. Man of the hour!
    4
  3239. It's basically nonsense
    4
  3240. Atlantis is just one of several myths dreamed up by Plato. Thoth is also mythology. Neither were or are real, any more than Yahweh or leprechauns.
    4
  3241. Great topic idea - I'll get to it eventually. Gotta get to more Christian Cabala first though!
    4
  3242. I'd have to know it first
    4
  3243. I hoped I disclaimed both of us enough - thanks for helping out with this.....eViL grammar
    4
  3244. Thanks for your kinds words - just trying to do my part to get reliable, scholarly information out there. Thanks for watching!
    4
  3245. Yep this is the kenite hypothesis
    4
  3246.  @evans808274mc9la  Oh, brother! Hope you'll feeling better or 'on the mend' as they in your neck of the woods.
    4
  3247. Ha ! I'll never not see that in the movie now
    4
  3248. Yeah, sadly I have no control of the ads. That stuff is awful though.
    4
  3249. Yep, sure am!
    4
  3250. Oh yeah...let me add that!
    4
  3251. Link in the description now!
    4
  3252. This episode was about the earliest known evidence for the Rosicrucians. That's the Fama, c.1610/1614. Fugiens was published in 1617, a year after the Confessio. Unless you can point to me to some actual historical evidence that suggests otherwise there's no conversation here. All that Francis Bacon, Oak Island stuff is nonsense. Same with the Shakespeare, Bible codes, etc. - it's paredolia, not evidence. It's also why this field has such a difficult time, people peddling fantasy and myth as history thus making the legitimate historians in this field look like grifters as well. If you're interested in the truth, then demand historical evidence.
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  3253. Hope so!
    4
  3254. No reason for shame - we acknowledge wrong doing and do our best to right the wrongs, combat the conditions which rise to them and work to ensure they don't happen again. Therapists like yourself help people all day everyday.
    4
  3255.  @1cathexis  Sure, this channel is meant to be accessible for both academics and practitioners.
    4
  3256. Many thanks !
    4
  3257. There's some gray in there :)
    4
  3258. True story
    4
  3259. End of episode!
    4
  3260. Yep, going to play the soundtrack on vinyl for the kids later :)
    4
  3261. Wonderful - glad to hear it!
    4
  3262. Yep - I don't want to to violate any copyright laws, etc. I am sure folks can find it if they want.
    4
  3263. Not completely but ..
    4
  3264. It's so implausible that I wouldn't waste my time
    4
  3265. I hope there's always room on the channel for smart, fun conversations.
    4
  3266. Such an amazing people and it's such a pity that Judaism has become so Ashki-normative. Glad you enjoyed the episode - more to come!
    4
  3267. Yeah, that's nonsense.
    4
  3268. There is a wide range but these texts are read by even very religious people. So, the same sort of prohibitions aren't in place....though the very orthodox world probably doesn't read Harry Potter either. Good luck on your journey!
    4
  3269. I don't think any psychologizing theory of alchemy has historical validity
    4
  3270. My understanding is that he used a bunch of alchemy metaphors to model psychological analysis. From what I can tell it just continues the same basic misreading of alchemy as Jung. It's really hard to land on the truth when you start off with fundamentally incorrect assumptions about the source material.
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  3271. l o v e townsends ;)
    4
  3272. It's an interesting although non-academic convention. I really don't think that scholar of magic find that their work is confused with research of stage magic. Also, the two strongly overlapped in some ways, historically at least.
    4
  3273. Thanks Angela, one of the best things about starting the channel has been meeting so many wonderful people - like you! Looking forward to Sunday!
    4
  3274. Yep. Don't trust anyone over 18.
    4
  3275. Hope that's a good thing !
    4
  3276. Test free zone !
    4
  3277. Thanks for your kind donation!
    4
  3278. Yep, it's an interesting text!
    4
  3279. He's the real adept - where you think all that gold came from?
    4
  3280. Not yet but I'm going to
    4
  3281. Yep, trying to keep a sympathetic but critical approach. Hope you enjoy the content!
    4
  3282. The MLK ritual didn't bind the deity. The person made a pledge (ndr) to the deity that IF the deity performed X, then person Y would make sacrifice (mlk) Z. The mlk was both the vow and name for this sacrifice mechanic.
    4
  3283. eh, go complain to Gershom Scholem...
    4
  3284. True story!
    4
  3285. @Patricia Avant I believe in them but I don't think they have or can reach our planet. Basically I'm convinced by the statistical likelihood not any evidence of contact
    4
  3286. He actually writes about her you can check out some of his essays about her
    4
  3287. Thanks - I'm glad you appreciate the content!
    4
  3288. Thank you kindly!
    4
  3289. Yep!
    4
  3290. Contact me via my website and let's get it sorted
    4
  3291. No, I don't. Interesting guy though!
    4
  3292.  @daughterofdivine.313  I bet you should be the puritan era "witch" for Halloween and when people ask you who you are just say "Abigail Williams"
    4
  3293. She was a vulture who predated on people's grief.
    4
  3294. That be hard to for him given he would have to be born a century earlier to pull it off
    4
  3295. Doin my best but damn
    4
  3296. Right?
    4
  3297. Way over my head...
    4
  3298. Thanks for the kind words and the support via Patreon - I'm glad I have support to make content like this!
    4
  3299. Thanks kindly!
    4
  3300. The Hebrew word is נשיא which historically meant something like "person who has power by inheritance" and is related to the word for prince, נסיך. It was also used to indicate the 'leader' of the Sanhedrin, e.g., Yehudah HaNasi, as well. The modern sense of the word is 'president' or 'chairman' or something like that. A medieval person, assuming they knew Hebrew, would likely have understood it to mean 'person in charge' or something like that.
    4
  3301.  @tateengstrand1349  Not then, no. But in Modern Hebrew use, yes.
    4
  3302. Fascinating - thanks for the comment!
    4
  3303. Never ever ;)
    4
  3304. Much later, in fact. Bureus - I have a video on him.
    4
  3305. IA! IA! MANDY FHTAGN!
    4
  3306. ^- This
    4
  3307. ....and even if I'm right, it doesn't make those esoteric ascent claims any bit the more true.
    4
  3308. Many, many thanks!
    4
  3309. Yep, he does!
    4
  3310. Kuntillet Arjud
    4
  3311. Japanese puzzle boxes
    4
  3312. Yep
    4
  3313. You can find those texts online as the shi'ur komah
    4
  3314. Thanks - glad that anyone appreciates my sense of humor!
    4
  3315. True, and illustrated Mandaean texts, but those are wholely distinct religious systems.
    4
  3316. That's the other, other side dominated by the powers of Elliot Wolfson
    4
  3317. A handbook to Biblical Hebrew by Page H Kelley is my go to. The Talmud is Aramaic.
    4
  3318. Rumble is a fascist cesspool - hard pass.
    4
  3319. Out east, they were kinda normie
    4
  3320. And thanks for all your kind words and support!
    4
  3321. Mostly protestantism but it was always a folk belief
    4
  3322. I don't waste my time thinking about it.
    4
  3323. What did Trotsky say about such people? Something about "acquaint them with the pavement a few times," something like that.
    4
  3324. Lol!
    4
  3325.  @corticallarvae  hard pass
    4
  3326. ;) - gotta have some fun with this stuff, right?
    4
  3327. "Thicc with a Thorn," another good band name :)
    4
  3328. Not really, I have a slight speech impediment and that may be affecting my pronunciation as well. Glad you enjoy the channel's content!
    4
  3329. Gonna have to go there though flamel never lived there - it was a poor house he had built.
    4
  3330. I want to open a hulk themed shoe repair place just to call it " it's cobblin' time!"
    4
  3331. "You're only shooting a YouTuber"
    4
  3332. It's so stupidly frustrating to have to deal with misogyny like that...and I'm not even a woman.
    4
  3333. Yeah, I don't know what this fact isn't more well known. It's absolutely bonkers.
    4
  3334. It's dreadfully common, sadly - here's to public education, freely accessible to all!
    4
  3335. Speaks more to their genius and to my teaching skills, though
    4
  3336. The KBH loves a good BBQ
    4
  3337. Saturn sigils from Agrippa
    4
  3338. I always kinda pitied him
    4
  3339. The Bogomils, for sure, but the 'Cathars' are so removed from the Gnostics of antiquity that it's hard to really even compare them aside from their dualism.
    4
  3340. Yep, the specter of the Rambam is always around the corner!
    4
  3341. my job here to done :)
    4
  3342. Glad you think so!
    4
  3343. Zevi from seekers of unity has a fantastic video on him
    4
  3344. I think that's just the standard academic consensus.
    4
  3345. It may very well have an impact on the god Yahweh. As for "God" in general, that's a philosophical and theological question, not a historical one. For me, I discuss my own beliefs on the faq on my website.
    4
  3346. Uhhh, yes?
    4
  3347.  @danterosati  It will be broadcast live I think and is sponsored by the Flint Institute of Arts and a kind local patron. It will be meant for the general public so I'm sure you will know everything and more than what I cover but I will certainly include a link and details when they become clear. It's really giving me a chance to dig deep into a huge range of texts and revealing to me (1) just how much of a mountain of primarily literature there is - especially in difficult to read early modern German (yay!) and (2) how much of that literature is thankfully archived on Google Books. We are so, so lucky to live in a period where we can access such rare stuff for free with just a few clicks.
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  3348. Historically, yes. Metaphysically, no.
    4
  3349. If you all think Angela of Foligno was weird just wait until you read about Angela of Napoli ;) thanks for the kind words, friend - Hope you're well!
    4
  3350. Ranke "wie es eigentlich gewesen ist" - "how things actually were"
    4
  3351. Glad you like them!
    4
  3352. nah, I'm religious - reconstructionist.
    4
  3353. That's just referring to the community of scholars
    4
  3354. Says the guy blowing the F up! Congrats, brother!
    4
  3355. This episode is focusing only on the Coptic texts. Smith's book deserves a separate episode.
    4
  3356. That doesn't take the least bit of psychedelics to figure that out. The word "credit" just means "belief" in Latin.
    4
  3357. Dit is onzin - Nederlands is de ware taal van het Goddelijke
    4
  3358. Yep - Tell Max to get in touch with me !
    4
  3359. No scholars deny that Mithras was originally a Persian God. They simply say that we have little to no evidence of actual Persian religious ritual or mythology in the Mithras cult.
    4
  3360. Thanks for the comment - I will work on the manuscript episode in the coming months! I'm also a calligraphy and Latin and Greek nerd, good to know I'm not alone!
    4
  3361. I'd love to and try some of the local Gwires!
    4
  3362. I'd absolutely love to try some !
    4
  3363. Yeah, I bet they are. Good ole- fashioned PR Crisis for institutional stupidity.
    4
  3364. What evidence do you have for RFB being biased? I've never seen Andrew slant information in a non-academic direction.
    4
  3365. Just driven batty by other things.
    4
  3366. Any episode on the Epiphanes? Probably not soon, but they are worth reading, for sure.
    4
  3367. Probably. I'd go with a metal detector, though.
    4
  3368. Somehow using the u rather than the v makes it so much worse
    4
  3369. Also y'all had trials up there too, right? They even had them in colonial Bermuda of all places
    4
  3370. It's hilarious the comments that think it's a demon or spirit or something
    4
  3371. Yeah desert vikings
    4
  3372. Not virgins, houris
    4
  3373. Glad the episode could help - hope you are well, friend!
    4
  3374. Not much point mentioning an idea for which there is no evidence and evidence to the contrary
    4
  3375. No
    4
  3376. If it makes sense to you - that's wonderful! Just know it's not historically connected to the real hermetic documents. If you want a great approach to reading the historical hermetic literature check this out - https://digitalambler.com/2023/02/08/ordering-an-approach-to-the-classical-hermetic-texts/
    4
  3377. In the works!
    4
  3378. Flammarion engraving
    4
  3379. Feel free to cite your source
    4
  3380. It's less than half of what it was originally
    4
  3381. That Rimbaud smoking a pipe in your pic?
    4
  3382. They are from two fundamentally different realities in this philosophy
    4
  3383. Also Odin was a con-man and Valhalla is the most hilarious grift.
    4
  3384. Those aren't etymologically linked in the original languages
    4
  3385. right?
    4
  3386. Nah, too modern for the channel
    4
  3387. The hard division between matter and spirit is the least anachronistic aspect of any of this. That division goes back to at least Plato.
    4
  3388. כן, למה?
    4
  3389. It was hard, but lessons always lie in hardship
    4
  3390. Sounds like youtube, sadly
    4
  3391. Pseudo albertus Magnus - I'll cover the stone stuff at some point
    4
  3392. It's beautiful - I've been watching some soap operas where it's spoken
    4
  3393. What you did there - I see it.
    4
  3394. Hermetic compliment is best compliment :)
    4
  3395. Forgot that one!
    4
  3396. Thanks for watching and for your kind words! Glad you find the content worthwhile!
    4
  3397. Yeah, it's been known since Plotinus even wrote the Enneads. I also don't understand why it's not better known.
    4
  3398. Yes and he was wrong about historical alchemy. Doesn't make him uninteresting, just wrong.
    4
  3399. I'm an academic making academic rather than religious content. The correct pronunciation of יהוה is and will likely remain unknown. "Yahweh" is just an academic attempt to name this ancient god.
    4
  3400. Ha! I love them and went through a phase collecting them. Just such lovely pieces of craftsmanship!
    4
  3401. The lore around the divine kiss is really, really fascinating! Thanks for the thoughtful comments always !
    4
  3402. I don't know anyone doing such work but it's a fascinating line of research!
    4
  3403. That's Hebrew this is Aramaic
    4
  3404. ? I didn't go anywhere I don't think
    4
  3405. Thanks Goodness!
    4
  3406. Yeah...and it doesn't help that Cthulhu isn't...uh...real. :)
    4
  3407. Probably as a fragmenta episode - basically nothing is known about them
    4
  3408. Eh, shrugs
    4
  3409. T'chiyah
    3
  3410. They were in the ottoman empire.
    3
  3411. Nah, nearly all these early cases were in or near safed.
    3
  3412. Thanks, Friend!
    3
  3413. For ever and ever, amen.
    3
  3414. You just like it because it appears that you look like the thumbnail picture ;) thanks!
    3
  3415. Yep, already out. Mentioned at the end
    3
  3416. amen v'amen
    3
  3417. wij zijn Brill - verzet is zinloos
    3
  3418. Oh, we ain't
    3
  3419. Yeah, that stuff isn't connected to traditional Kabbalah in the least
    3
  3420. I only have very limited knowledge of Tibetan mysticism, primarily though what I know of Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. So I don't want to say more without more research. But yes, Judaism has lots to say - in the Talmud and elsewhere - about dreams and dream interpretation!
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  3421. Just cut to the chase and give me the map ;)
    3
  3422. Chopin nocturne
    3
  3423. Now that's a cool job
    3
  3424. Probably not the Hittites were Indo-Europeans.
    3
  3425. Judaism UP all night !
    3
  3426. I think I did define them pretty early on in this series. Check out my episode on medieval demonology.
    3
  3427. Japanese puzzle boxes
    3
  3428. The Jeuian by about a thousand years
    3
  3429. It certainly seems so - folks who know way more about that than I do swear by it. I'm just hopeful my presentation is a good mix of sympathetic and critical.
    3
  3430. yeah, we tight.
    3
  3431. ;)
    3
  3432. Orval is my absolute fav beer
    3
  3433. It's true... whatever true means for myths
    3
  3434. It has 99.4% likes - what are you seeing?
    3
  3435. Who knows? Hope it wasn't a bot attack - why would anyone care to do that?
    3
  3436. No, I don't think so. I think the only thing Josephus was interested in was himself an his own clout.
    3
  3437. Yep, it's in the queue!
    3
  3438. I'm also that guy watching tiger king ;)
    3
  3439. This position isn't born out by the facts - even the arrest vs execution rate, especially given that torture was used, never got into double-digit numbers by percentage. It was morally outrageous but nowhere to the degree it's presented as. Facts and history matter not what we want to believe.
    3
  3440. The 'Book of the Dead' isn't at all that in the original Egyptian. The translation of the actual title is "The book of coming forth by day"
    3
  3441. Allegory - he was a solid but heterodox Christian
    3
  3442.  Literature Survey  Good question, you seem to be an expert though ;)
    3
  3443. Really appreciate your work as well, Dr. Sommer!
    3
  3444. Yeah, kinda. The three part Dee Monas series.
    3
  3445. No, they were prosecuting what they thought was a crime
    3
  3446. I'm glad, but I wonder why they perform so poorly?
    3
  3447. 20th century text with no connection to historical hermetic thought
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  3448. It's a great question. I would say that both the Egyptians and Mesopotamian cultures both created written philosophical texts. I would point to Instructions of Shuruppak and the Sumerian/Akkadian Pessimism literature (c.f., the book of Qohelet/Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible), along with many Instructions Texts in Egypt such as The Maxim's of Ptahhotep, the Instructions of Kagemni, Instruction of Amenemope, etc., along with the Debate Between the Sufferer and his Soul among others. Further, many Greek philosophers weren't Greek. Some, Like Zeno of Citium was a Phoenician by birth. So a few pre-Greek philosophical texts - hope this helps! I can also help with some collections of these texts and others if you are interested.
    3
  3449. A Kingdom of Stargazers: Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon by Michael A. Ryan
    3
  3450. Not really, it's just us lonely few public educators out here trying to see what works and trying to make a living doing so.
    3
  3451. There is no evidence linking the 'cathars' and hadewijch.
    3
  3452. Glad you find the content rewarding!
    3
  3453. Thanks, for some reason you can only use one card to point to one video and it wouldn't let me do it twice. Anyway, would you ever consider doing a collaborative episode sometime? Would be fun to work together - I even have an idea!
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  3454. Not yet made look for maybe next week actually
    3
  3455. Yep, it's mostly a history of misogyny, sadly
    3
  3456. It's a tough read - use some Aquinas (on spiritual creatures is a fun read) for practice
    3
  3457. Good luck!
    3
  3458. He had a copy of Mathers but that's it
    3
  3459. At some point, got a lot more historical alchemists to cover
    3
  3460.  @commieRob  :) a true hierophant!
    3
  3461. This
    3
  3462. There's no evidence for that and there's no evidence that her language continue to be used after her death
    3
  3463. yep, just wait till you get to the kabbalah with 10 whopping powers!
    3
  3464. That's typically thought of as a different angel specifically the mashkhit or malakh hamavet - The angel of death
    3
  3465. That one.
    3
  3466. Phillipa aureola theophrata bombasta frau hoheheim
    3
  3467. Yep, difficult stuff but fascinating!
    3
  3468. Modernity is the monster here
    3
  3469. Do you have any evidence for this meaning?
    3
  3470. Like I said, as early as 1665 Nathan clearly thought sv was going to get himself killed so he theologically prepared for that. The apostasy must have been a curve ball but not quite as inconvenient as a messianic death (which hasn't stopped previous messianic movements, obviously)
    3
  3471. Neat! What tradition do you come from ?
    3
  3472. The TTP is so much easier than the Ethics - the wind is in your sails!
    3
  3473. I thought the same thing
    3
  3474. Now you can make the wikipedia entry :)
    3
  3475. I mention Bologna
    3
  3476. ϣⲁϫⲉ
    3
  3477. Yeah, it's a pity, right? It's pretty amazing, at least I think so.
    3
  3478. Ever felt your phone vibrate and no notifications ? Or just the work out brain does to make faces seem symmetrical to us, a bear constant hallucination
    3
  3479. Nope, not to my knowledge.
    3
  3480. Would you believe it was an honest to goodness accident?
    3
  3481. I don't think so, the name עֵשָׂו has an unclear etymology.
    3
  3482. coming this week
    3
  3483. Thanks....probably.
    3
  3484. It's religious mythology.
    3
  3485. Yep!
    3
  3486. Which book of Thoth? The demotic book of Thoth?
    3
  3487. I don't
    3
  3488.  @terriblejustawful2825  I mean the title literally reads "Zohar on Esther Fragment - The Battle of the Shekhinah against the Klippot (April Fools 2022)"
    3
  3489. "I hate you. I hate you. I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you." - Silky Johnston
    3
  3490. The Voynich doesn't behave like any language or cipher system.
    3
  3491. Yep, thanks colonialism
    3
  3492. Great word, right?
    3
  3493. Thanks for the support of the channel - It means so much to me!
    3
  3494. Already lining up to get it re-recorded but it's still not fair - I'm going to fight this
    3
  3495. Yep!
    3
  3496. Sorry, I wish I could control it but it's totally out of my hands :(
    3
  3497.  @BenedictaXValentina  I'm not an ane linguist and, to my knowledge, there's no agreement on the vocalization of many ancient languages including Ugaritic. Hence the texts are presented with only the consonants in this case.
    3
  3498. Yeah, and Hadewich doesn't give a f*** about Heidegger and his bag ;)
    3
  3499. Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher 178 etc passim
    3
  3500. Hope you enjoyed it - thanks!
    3
  3501. Love those Carvaka guys
    3
  3502. Christ conferred that power to the church via his commission to Peter. They weren't compelling Christ, just invoking that commission.
    3
  3503. Yep so secret you can buy it on Amazon
    3
  3504. This is new age material. I'm interested in historical theory and practice of actual Paracelsians.
    3
  3505. When the Doom Music Kicks In
    3
  3506. Yep!
    3
  3507. Jesus was executed by the romans, probably for sedition.
    3
  3508. It's unlikely and the tradition goes back to Augustine hundreds of years before the rise of Islam
    3
  3509. No, I see no evidence for it and lots of evidence to the contrary. Not a single scrap of any such documents have ever been found in Egypt. I think it's unlikely in the extreme.
    3
  3510. The standard text here is a little dated by good - Possession and Exorcism: Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times - by Traugott K. Oesterreich -978-0883560358. Though there are many more specific studies. I'll be doing a video on the Dybbuk and Jewish exorcism at some point soon!
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  3511. I do play though not as much these days, sadly
    3
  3512. This is an academic channel. And I suspect that a great many people have meditated on the text and written heaps of commentaries.
    3
  3513. Probably made the right decision
    3
  3514. Then you don't really want to know about actual, historical alchemy. Yep, most episodes on alchemy deal with the stone of the philosophers.
    3
  3515. Thanks - the more new-agey and Jungian alchemy stuff from the late 19th and 20th century make historical alchemy into a kind of modern self-help but that's pretty anachronistic. Historical alchemy was always a theory of and for transformation nature via 'art.'
    3
  3516. That would be fun - maybe shoot them a message and see if they would be interested in having me! Thanks for watching!
    3
  3517. if anyone wants to do that they have my blessing, just give me some credit in the footnotes.
    3
  3518. Whatever cranks your tractor!
    3
  3519. It's a pidyon haben shekel with the hand gesture made by priests during the priestly benediction and the course of the Vulcan live long and prosper gesper by Spock!
    3
  3520. She's not called Babylon there but "the daughter of fortitude" but yep, I mention as much in the episode
    3
  3521. Gotta not skip the baptisms
    3
  3522. Work shed
    3
  3523. Especially considering it's supposed to make you alive - eternally alive.
    3
  3524. Simply put, Jesus failed to accomplish any of the generally conceived things a Messiah is supposed to do within their lifetime.
    3
  3525. Nope, not at all - thanks for asking!
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  3526. My colleague Filip over at let's talk religion has done a great episode on her ! Check it out
    3
  3527. The fourth lateran council
    3
  3528. t h i s
    3
  3529. Love kohelet
    3
  3530. nah
    3
  3531. :) I totally agree, the ancient aliens stuff is most just crypto-racism. C R I N G E
    3
  3532. 19th century fraud/hoax - interesting uptake though.
    3
  3533. Aqua regia dissolving gold
    3
  3534. I'm sure they're exactly the same.
    3
  3535. Yep
    3
  3536. Bro gods flinging semen at each other, etc.
    3
  3537. Pot and kettle
    3
  3538. They aren't so much esoteric as they just lost the debate. At the time Arius was quite popular and I think Athanasius was in one of his several stints of exile.
    3
  3539. Nah she was officially backed by the church
    3
  3540. Yeah, it renders シロアリ but I'm not one to correct 'official' translations unless I'm pretty skilled in that target language - which I'm certainly not in Japanese.
    3
  3541. Schop's with that wolverine hair
    3
  3542. Yes'm
    3
  3543. Thanks Eddie - welcome to the channel!
    3
  3544. Just trying to be honest as I learn!
    3
  3545. Interpretatio graeca
    3
  3546. Daniel is in good Hebrew and Aramaic. It's Job that has all the obscure Hebrew.
    3
  3547. Demotic not demonic.
    3
  3548. I'd love to - he's great
    3
  3549. Check out my episode on the apocryphon of John !
    3
  3550. vice vera
    3
  3551. His father called him "sad trash"
    3
  3552. 4th century, she was killed in the early 5th. It was a mob attack, maybe Cyril had a hand in it though it isn't clear.
    3
  3553. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְ⁠‑יָ אֱ⁠‑לֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדְבָרוֹ: Baruch atah A-donay, Elo-heinu Melech Ha’Olam shehakol nihiyah bed'varo. Blessed are You, L-rd our G‑d, King of the universe, by Whose word all things came to be
    3
  3554. The gerson but the McKenna is totally serviceable
    3
  3555. It's always "works cited" and "recommended readings" :)
    3
  3556.  @EduNauta95  Jung's understanding of alchemy, for instance, was ahistorical and fundamentally wrong. It's interesting as literature I suppose though.
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  3557. Like I said, there really isn't one. But I do want to episode on the field of Solomonic texts more generally and already kinda have started with these episodes. The famous Mathers edition is just one he found in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (and not a great edition, fwiw) of over 150 manuscripts spread all through Europe and beyond.
    3
  3558. Peer reviewed evidence?
    3
  3559. It's that fun bible
    3
  3560. Yep, the Enochian stuff is crazy complicated - just keeping track of all the little weird details is tough. Hope you're well and enjoy the sailing, brother!
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  3561. She is! Many thanks!
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  3562. Yeah he didn't even use that black mirror in the museum.
    3
  3563. Even moreso Rosemary's Baby
    3
  3564. Verily
    3
  3565. Yep, he wasn't about it
    3
  3566. Bill of Occam is great - but no one tops my boy gersonides
    3
  3567. There's no evidence to substantiate that claim.
    3
  3568. Thanks for the kind words, Angela!
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  3569. Ha, those were the days.
    3
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    3
  3571. Nah, it's a thing you see in these texts. Cathar TV shows are the worst.
    3
  3572. Probably not, edge core kid set
    3
  3573. We're full of classical references around here
    3
  3574. I think of the Treasures of Light like the cosmic greenrooms - for the backstage cool kids :)
    3
  3575. Probably not, the GoT is just too well known and covered well on other channels
    3
  3576. Yep, that's certainly one big factor.
    3
  3577. I think that's right - no matter how smart or wise we are we often can't see past our own nose. Studying with others helps us do that. But yeah, the volumes are somewhat pricey but there is always the good old fashioned library!
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  3578. Maybe / doubtful & no evidence of baptism, but they were Jewish (probably) and ritual immersion was/is important. Also living near the lake is salient. Who knows?
    3
  3579. Nope
    3
  3580. Yeah, trust me I know a thing or two, but lots of these books are reference, etc.
    3
  3581. People should also know just how shockingly little information is actually online. Tens of thousands of books have no modern edition, no translations and aren't digitized.
    3
  3582. Thanks for saying so - alchemy is a mainstay so I hope you stick around!
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  3583. I can't imagine Crowley not following instructions :) What do you have in mind from the text that appears 'gnostic' to you? I guess I don't see much about the text that's really Jewish (especially when compared to known Jewish magical texts), much less 'gnostic.' Also, do we have evidence of 'gnostic' beliefs persisting in the area around Nag Hammadi?
    3
  3584.  @kheph777  It's an interesting thesis but I think it's reaching. But, I suspect we are operating with different frameworks. For instance, I follow Hanegraaff in rejecting there is any such thing as a "western esoteric tradition" and follow Williams and King in rejecting that 'gnosticism' existed as such. I also don't think this text as written by a Jewish person (Abraham or Abramelin, who I doubt existed at all). So given all this we may be operating under fundamentally different assumptions. But, thanks for taking the time to give us your insight. I'll think about it further next time I get around the reading the text. I really wanted to look at the text in German mss, e.g., this phrase 'blended Kabbalah' is unusual and interesting. Pity the German mss aren't digital yet!
    3
  3585. How so?
    3
  3586. Dog
    3
  3587. Yeah, being a mass murderer has that effect
    3
  3588. Most English cookery language is directly from French
    3
  3589. It's more likely that Gibbler wrote it than Atlanteans or whatever :)
    3
  3590. Yep, it's interesting whatever it is. The very mathematics that seems to make extra-terrestrial intelligent life a certainly also seems to insure the impossibility of us ever coming into contact with them.
    3
  3591. t h i s
    3
  3592. Thanks for the feedback!
    3
  3593. Not so much - Satan is kinda boring to tbh
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  3594.  @ErForce1  :) I should release some b-roll, the dog barking helps me make about 10 cuts an episode!
    3
  3595. ?
    3
  3596.  @PapaYo4XXX  Especially me :)
    3
  3597.  @PapaYo4XXX  I may have some expertise but that definitely doesn't make me infallible or anything like that. We are all learning together and I hope I am always open to learning, being corrected, and improving. We are all learning together and I am happy to be learning with everyone that comes to the channel!
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  3598. You know I used to too and someone 'corrected' me while I was studying in Amsterdam. I can't remember who now. Maybe it's like the difference in how people say Crowley's name...or, even more likely, I'm just wrong.
    3
  3599. Coba is amazing - tallest pyramid in the Yucatan I believe
    3
  3600. The philistines we're Mediterranean people from the diametric opposite direction
    3
  3601. Brill can't see me because they remain deep in their lair sleeping amongst their vast treasure
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  3602. Wonderful - thanks !
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  3603. Weirdly enough, the Inquisition in Europe did far more to preserve knowledge than destroy it. Only in very rare cases did the Inquisition burn books. In most cases both books were collected and used as evidence then preserved for further study by that body. In mesoamerica, the story is horrifyingly the reverse.
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  3604. Thanks and thanks for saying so!
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  3605. Damn
    3
  3606. Yeah, but only to talk about Downton Abbey
    3
  3607. He never had any mystical experiences and hung around with a bunch of proto-protestants - I imagine that'd do it. Knowing a lot about the occult doesn't necessarily make one a believer. Me, for instance.
    3
  3608. I think he was being sincere - the occult philosophy simply did not deliver upon the claims he thought it could make in his youth
    3
  3609. I'm an academic not an occultist. I don't even believe in sheydim, etc.
    3
  3610.  @levyyitzhak7398  I appreciate it but I just present this stuff, I don't follow any of it.
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  3611. Though you might like this one!
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  3612. The Mather's edition is interesting historically but isn't reliable in terms of manuscript edition - in fact, one wonders how much Crowley really understood what he was talking about when it was published. For instance, Crowley claims that it was 'translated' but the text only survives (was originally composed) in English.
    3
  3613. Many thanks!
    3
  3614. Claims that things are psy-ops is a psy-op
    3
  3615. Yes
    3
  3616. I'll have to check it out - I have the Patai book on the shelf.
    3
  3617. Yeah, that's the word on the street.....demon-summoning street.
    3
  3618. Definitely Superman.
    3
  3619. AD and BC are confessional temporal markers - I'm Jewish and Jesus isn't my 'dominus.' In fact Jesus probably wasn't even born at the times of BC/AD. So, BC/E is simply better for academic use and even more accurate. Nothing to do with 'wokeness'
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  3620. Confessional means prioritizing one faith tradition or speaking from that position rather than academically. As for positions you can read about them on the faq on my website.
    3
  3621. Agrippa never really wrote on alchemy, Paracelsus is centuries later and you can only understand him by understanding what he rejects (i.e., this theory, though he doesn't totally reject it) and Flamel's alchemy relies on this very text.
    3
  3622. The Pritzker is a truly amazing work of translation and commentary.
    3
  3623. "Bether [sic] governeth those things which are ascribed to Jupiter: he soon cometh being called. He that is dignified with his character, he raiseth to very great dignities, to cast open treasures" ;)
    3
  3624. Yep, I'll cover the so-called 4th book at some point eventually.
    3
  3625. Plato didn't give a fuuuuuu...
    3
  3626. Jesus would have had a radically differing concept of the afterlife compared to pre-apocalyptic Israelite Religion. As for the NIV, given that we don't have a good understanding of even the origins of the term, I would argue it shouldn't be translated at all.
    3
  3627. We keep it real around here :)
    3
  3628. Me too
    3
  3629. I'm not on any journey.
    3
  3630. Asking the real questions :)
    3
  3631. Yeah, we try to have scholarly rigor around here
    3
  3632. Ha! Kanye is a genius....weird for sure, but what geniuses aren't. Thanks for the kind words!
    3
  3633.  @theprinceofdarkness4679  Thanks - any and all support of the channel is appreciated from Patreon to just watching and commenting - thanks!
    3
  3634. "Why have you come all this way to remind me my child is mortal ?"
    3
  3635. I just tried the main website and it looks down at the moment for some reason :(
    3
  3636. Eventually!
    3
  3637. Thanks!
    3
  3638. Even Lenin told the Bolsheviks to vote for kerensky when fascism threatened. Electoral politics are the footing upon which civil society rests and any Marxism worth its salt must defend civil society at all costs because it is upon that pillar that any socialism can be built. And, I think Hegel positively nails that point in the philosophy of right
    3
  3639. Yes he was a gallilean peasant who probably never went further away from his home than Jerusalem
    3
  3640. I agree, he just seemed a little cagey but yes, a real treasure
    3
  3641.  @jesar6058  folkways
    3
  3642. I have considered it...and haven't done it
    3
  3643. Thanks for your kinds words and glad you are finding the content worthwhile!
    3
  3644. I plan on it - that's a fantastic book
    3
  3645. You only have you lamens to lose!
    3
  3646. It's "tonsure" - Though, I hear that trick doesn't work in Paris anymore ;)
    3
  3647. She great - Welcome Aboard!
    3
  3648. Thanks for this and hope it's helpful for your students!
    3
  3649. Thanks for saying so - I'm happy you find the content worthwhile!
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  3650. Not in the traditional mythology
    3
  3651. Not doing that kinda stuff here
    3
  3652. pesky demented demonologists
    3
  3653. Thanks Angela - Your work is great as well. I'm so excited to see such content making its way to youtube!
    3
  3654. I always think of him as a taller dude
    3
  3655. Those often go hand in hand
    3
  3656. Absolutely
    3
  3657. It puts the lotion on its skin...
    3
  3658. Not really, I don't do much with the 20th century
    3
  3659. Quantity yes, quality? Ehhhhhh
    3
  3660.  @danieltalis7711  nope, because it wasn't. It's broadly influenced by neo-platonism but there is no homologous system in process, orphic hyms etc.
    3
  3661. Yep, I discuss my personal beliefs in other comments.
    3
  3662. dog
    3
  3663. super hero origin stories!
    3
  3664. Nah
    3
  3665. Maybe at some point and yes she's sadly largely unknown
    3
  3666. Dig deep, dig often ;)
    3
  3667. Many thanks for this generous support of the channel!
    3
  3668. I haven't but I would really enjoy chatting with them - solid and wonderful content creators!
    3
  3669. Love me some treasure!
    3
  3670. Yeah, damn those ads
    3
  3671. A synagogue is a general term for any Jewish house of worship. A temple is typical term used by the Reform Movement to refer to their houses of worship. THE Temple, was the Jerusalem temple that as been destroyed for 2000 years now.
    3
  3672. Yep, I say as much in the episode
    3
  3673. I'm certainly no expert in astrology but would certainly be interesting - It's curious given the current popularity of astrology that I haven't heard about this similarity before!
    3
  3674. Kabbalah is, by definition, Jewish.
    3
  3675. ....with the fur
    3
  3676. lots....lots in here.
    3
  3677. already mentioned him in another video
    3
  3678. Huh?
    3
  3679. Thanks for the reply - like I said, I'm no film buff but I hope this review is interesting. Yeah, I really appreciated how these characters were written and thought it was an amazing film all things told. Film is such an important spiritual medium and I hope I can do more reviews in the vein.
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  3680. I have no idea what that means
    3
  3681. Thanks - it was kinda random but glad it was helpful.
    3
  3682. That term "social justice" has always struck me as strange....as if there were another kind of justice. Seems redundant to me.
    3
  3683. Not to my knowledge
    3
  3684. Very overpowered premier
    3
  3685. There never has been a 'tree of death' in traditional kabbalah - it's made up elsewhere. Din/Gevurah as the origin of evil is the standard account in all traditional forms of Kabbalah.
    3
  3686. They're in Cambridge
    3
  3687. ​ @HiDesert004  no, he wasn't. He was just a coward who rode the wave of terror and murder a bit like Heidegger, a shameful opportunist who supported evil until it didn't benefit him.
    3
  3688. Thanks! I'm always curious when and at what people report my biases. What's fascinating, to me at least, is that I get accusations of basically being biased for and against virtually every topic I address.
    3
  3689. Wow - Hi praise. Now if I can only get Audrey Horne to do that weird dance to it!
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  3690. It's called the Flammarion Engraving
    3
  3691. I don't have one but shwep.net and glitchbottle are good and popular.
    3
  3692. Yep, or Hippolytus, etc.
    3
  3693. Poopus
    3
  3694. Nah, different root word.
    3
  3695. Nice notice and your guess is as good as mine
    3
  3696. Hope you find the series rewarding!
    3
  3697. Parapoop
    3
  3698. It doesn't matter what I believe if I accurately represent the information
    3
  3699. I sell rare and antiquarian occult volumes and rarely some calligraphy
    3
  3700. BoN is getting her own episode!
    3
  3701. Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database
    3
  3702. It's standard
    3
  3703. Kinda did a few
    3
  3704. Nah, it's too contemporary.
    3
  3705. Do any of the texts I reference refer to astrology?
    3
  3706. oh yeah
    3
  3707. The ear cropping happened before he met Dee, for coining or forgery or both. But yes to all the other things. Kelley was also probably suffering from pre-existing mental health issues which his time with see only exacerbated.
    3
  3708. It's a terrible joke - in the USA you dial 411 to get information.
    3
  3709.  @cameronarias9468  <Canadian>youbetcha</Canadian>
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  3710. I can't speak for conjuring but I don't think that anything in the MSS are missing really. So, if the conjuring can be done it can be done with what's there. But, again, can't speak much for the practical side of things.
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  3711. Eh, realism has been the minority position for centuries now
    3
  3712. Agree - it's very, very difficult reading
    3
  3713. Nah, very different spellings in Hebrew - גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג - עוֹג
    3
  3714. Plato hype!
    3
  3715. Yep! Cartonage!
    3
  3716. Which was?
    3
  3717. Yep, that's what the Matthew writer would have us believe. Though, it's historically doubtful that Jesus was born in Bethlehem at all.
    3
  3718. Yep, she's great!
    3
  3719. Not all of Catholicism just that aspect
    3
  3720. Strange!
    3
  3721. I very nearly wrote my dissertation on Guattari, I'm very sympathetic to Deleuze when he's being a rigorous philosopher - Difference and Repetition is a work of pure genius, on the whole, but when he's wrong he's wrong - these people aren't saints - but Deleuze clearly misread Scotus on purpose such that he committed him to the Univocity of being simpliciter where it's clear that Scotus repudiates that very position, in very plain language. If he wanted to do that he could have easily used Spinoza for just those ends you literally wrote his dissertation on Spinoza and of course the little book. He didn't do that, he lied about what Scotus actually argued for, misunderstood him, or willfully misread him. It's very clear that it was the latter and primarily in the interests of being obscurantist - as if Scotus was some kind of proto-Spinoza. That's willful deception, Scotus is very clear on that point - That's extraordinarily intellectually dishonest in my opinion.
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  3722. Your point about Plato is right on and that's why I really dislike Plato in that regard. At least Aristotle actually represented and quoted the pre-socratics accurately. That says something despite him just quoting them to show how he thinks they're all wrong and only discovered two of the causes of course he discovered the other two. My point is that it's fine to argue with someone but it's not fine to misrepresent them even in the interest of so-called "creative license."
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  3723. Oh yeah. Not that stuff
    3
  3724. Wonderful comment !
    3
  3725. Only $100? Just wait.....and worry.
    3
  3726. Young for a reliable, modern translation. Tyson for being more practical oriented
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  3727. Otherwise known as reasons I wish I could visit Lebanon. That, and all the great arak
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  3728. I'm just some guy.
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  3729. Yep, that was one dimension as argued by federici
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  3730. Would be fun but I just don't have the time
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  3731. You'll have to wait to I need up making a video on my take on this question. For me, it all boils down to "what does one mean by 'work' in this question." But, all in due time!
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  3732. Neat stuff, huh? I only included the link the part I because that is the part that contains the Esh M'tzaref but the whole work is amazing. It would be great just to get a reprint of it in Latin....even that would be expensive I bet. Thanks for the links!
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  3733. Yahweh wins ! Monolatry
    3
  3734. I don't think so, it's pretty tough to monkey to atomic structures. I mean...unless you have a particle collider.
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  3735. I think one of the issues is about the nature of evil. Kabbalah lives on the knife's edge of dualism. On one account it's primaeval (and maybe co-eternal with the g-dhead) on the other it's a by-product of creation and will be eliminated in the final tikkun. I'd say those come out pretty different in the wash.
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  3736. You can read how to do it in the quartus
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  3737. No, every Egyptian realized that any scrap of papyrus was a winning lottery ticket and we'll never know what ended up in private collections
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  3738. nope
    3
  3739. Ask her for one source or reference in Crowley claiming he was 'satanic' - the burden of evidence is on her, no you.
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  3740. To me it sounds like Boomhauer from king of the hill.
    3
  3741.  @stressedout7174  Patrons get early access to the episodes!
    3
  3742. Yahweh wins ! Monolatry
    3
  3743. Yes, this position is rejected by most scholars.
    3
  3744. Yeah, I've never been a fan of Kabbalah. I'm on team Gersonides.
    3
  3745. You know I haven't played DND without dming in like 30 years
    3
  3746. Oh its was.
    3
  3747. Good question - give it a try and let us know!
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  3748. pretty sure that's supposed to be Moshe
    3
  3749. Also the diplomatic POV I take in this video may or may not be my actual position.
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  3750.  @Quantum-Omega  oh, none then.
    3
  3751.  @Quantum-Omega  I have come to no compelling evidence of anything paranormal or supernatural, from ufos, to ghosts, to gods, to leprechauns. none of it.
    3
  3752. The literal Dutch language
    3
  3753. Answered on my faq
    3
  3754. Yep
    3
  3755. Thanks so much !
    3
  3756. No cryptologists take this 'solution' seriously
    3
  3757. Yeah, I'd love to see a solution but I don't think it's in the cards
    3
  3758. Twas too easy
    3
  3759. I think the ratio, given how he leans on Ficino
    3
  3760. Nope I'm an academic and a historical materialist to boot
    3
  3761. Yeah, it was probably mean to be humorous in the end. Which is funny because people ended up taking it quite literally. I think the Garden of Eden story in Genesis is meant to be funny too.
    3
  3762. No historical protocol I've come across calls for such a procedure
    3
  3763. Giza? 2600-2500 BCE
    3
  3764. The Joy of Sects! Thanks for the support, friend!
    3
  3765. Yep, sounds like neo-platonism
    3
  3766. Yep, got your email - Let's make a time to chat soon!
    3
  3767. I have whole episodes on Cathar theology, fwiw
    3
  3768. Nah basically pulled this episode out of the hat
    3
  3769.  @quinticcalabi5126  Thanks for the offer - though we sourced this section of the music from an open source at the IMSLP so it shouldn't run into any copyright issues.
    3
  3770. You mean the ridiculous things I say? There's too much to even make a supercut of
    3
  3771. Not quite sure I know what you mean
    3
  3772. Pass
    3
  3773. Thanks for the kind words!
    3
  3774. I'm not a theistic and so far it appears that the universe is best described in logical terms.
    3
  3775. Cheaper than therapy, fwiw
    3
  3776. Hi There - I just checked amazon an it looks like you can get a used copy for $12. I searched the ISBN 978-0830826872. See if you have any luck with that one.
    3
  3777. Right, that's why it's an informal fallacy and your formalization show it's limitations. For me, it is useful when what is semantically bound isn't actually justified. In this case "No true Christians can practice magic (or No magic practice can be Christian) therefore there is no Christian magic." Here I would argue that 'Christian' and 'Magic,' cannot be defined as mutually exclusive, at least from an etic perspective. Otherwise the statement is emic, i.e., confessional, and by definition not academic. Which is totally fine, Christian communities get to set whatever standards they see fit, just academics are going to (1) press those limits logically and (2) aren't bound them in the least.
    3
  3778.  @mikebaker2436  Huge question. Here I would shoot from the hip and say that magic is something like =def (magic) "attempts at auto-intentional, non-providential causation."
    3
  3779. Macho man metal
    3
  3780. Classic
    3
  3781. It's totally made up in the 20th century and has nothing to do with the historical texts discussed here
    3
  3782. eh, can't please everyone, I guess.
    3
  3783. Yep, super interesting. I think they say that even Nasser saw it!
    3
  3784. The ms was created 100 years before Kelly was born
    3
  3785. There is nothing more serious than a joke :)
    3
  3786. This is my academic area of expertise - it's kinda my day job and isn't a reflection of my religious values.
    3
  3787. Thanks, Jorge!
    3
  3788. Yep, its my dog :) She's snoring as I write this reply!
    3
  3789. I'm so very sorry to hear that. If there's anything I can do let me know. Send my best to your mom too !
    3
  3790. It's a converted imperial date
    3
  3791. It's a radiometer - it spins
    3
  3792. Certainly could be and much respect for the farming life
    3
  3793. Thanks Kindly!
    3
  3794. Glad you enjoyed it!
    3
  3795. There's really no source. It's just basic knowledge of Hebrew. רַע just means bad or evil there's nothing more complicated to it.
    3
  3796. Yep!
    3
  3797. Doing my best!
    3
  3798. No, too recent. Monthly cover things prior to the 19th century
    3
  3799. I'm pretty sure the OTO has a vested interest in Crowley being on point. Aaron leitch provides serious criticism of Crowley's version of the ritual. Again, I don't have a dog in this fight, but I can't say that the Mathers edition of the ritual is textually defective.
    3
  3800. Yep, that second part. And it doesn't appear to have been really systematic in this sense. Also, whatever 'gnosticism' was it likely pre-dated Christianity in general.
    3
  3801. Yep, it if were only an algorithm. I'm confident that there is also stochastic induction into the text as well.
    3
  3802. yes. ...kinda
    3
  3803. Apparently, yes
    3
  3804. Yep, a couple more
    3
  3805. Thank you so much!
    3
  3806. I think it's more they come away with a sense that the story is just more complicated
    3
  3807. Nothing, because he didn't exist. But there is a great tale in the Talmud about him not recognizing rabbinical Judaism - so the rabbis were honest about this and even wrote about it. You would know that if you studied the Talmud before trying to call it out.
    3
  3808. ז"ל
    3
  3809. To get stuff, though beats me
    3
  3810. By the Middle ages "necromancy" had a more expansive sense than the strict etymology
    3
  3811. Nah, this theory is widely rejected in scholarship
    3
  3812. Neat you knew him. Purple was the first CD I ever bought with my own money. Z"l
    3
  3813. make shachris too chilly, tho
    3
  3814. I'm just saying it was kinda necessary :)
    3
  3815. I'm doubtful it's even a 'creation.'
    3
  3816. Yep Andrew does that
    3
  3817. ~40 years
    3
  3818. And WW1 era anti-german chauvinism
    3
  3819. I love their channel - it would be fun to work with them on something!
    3
  3820. Maybe one day! Thanks!
    3
  3821. Team? Just me ;)
    3
  3822. Guess it depends on your cosmology.
    3
  3823. If you'd asked me 3 years ago I'd never believed you
    3
  3824.  @huckfinn257  oh good gracious
    3
  3825. Ha! Welcome, friend - hope you stick around!
    3
  3826. Many thanks !
    3
  3827. I'm an avid absinthe collector and have an episode of my channel where I open and sample a bottle of 100 year old absinthe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROLkFLeshFc
    3
  3828. No, it was reasonable back then. It's the fact that it still happens that's shocking.
    3
  3829. From the university
    3
  3830. There's no agreement, Moore and Baker disagree on the origins of both.
    3
  3831. a l w a y s
    3
  3832. Nice - I'd like to see it too!
    3
  3833. Sacred places for me, especially when the hi tone was on poplar!
    3
  3834. El farolero
    3
  3835. No and there likely won't be.
    3
  3836. Absolutely - hope stick around!
    3
  3837. Check out let's talk religion 's episode on it!
    3
  3838. the one and only!
    3
  3839. Yep, it's surprisingly small when you walk in there.
    3
  3840. Yep, I think this is why it's very important to actually visit these sites. It immediately makes it clear why it's impossible so many rolls could have been in such a small building.
    3
  3841. You're right that is a juicy one
    3
  3842. Link in the comments!
    3
  3843. Go forth and do
    3
  3844. None - social media terrifies me
    3
  3845. Yep, three volumes
    3
  3846. Called the scivias
    3
  3847.  @Healingwithflo  That's sounds really, really tiring :) My deepest hope in this life is that this is the only one I have to put up with. Existence is overrated.
    3
  3848.  @maria369  Lots of beardo clones on you tube apparently...and at micro-breweries.
    3
  3849. It'd be interesting just a question of time, interest and if they'd pay me
    3
  3850. Some radicals think that the radical were an after effect of the very persecution - a similar phenomena happened in the witch trials and the satanic panic, interestingly enough. I'm at least somewhat partial to this position.
    3
  3851. eh, felt redundant.
    3
  3852. Nah....
    3
  3853. "Just beat the devil out of it."
    3
  3854. None in the Zohar so far as I can tell
    3
  3855. Then I would have the flu and mercury poisoning
    3
  3856. Thanks so much, Marco for your support and your innovative scholarship!
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  3857. I definitely don't feel that way
    3
  3858. As someone who has to deal with the reality of parasociality - I can see your point.
    3
  3859. Hope you liked it!
    3
  3860. Yes and partially
    3
  3861. probably not, it's clearly a medieval forgery
    3
  3862. Sorry not sorry
    3
  3863. Have both of those - wonderful texts !
    3
  3864. You mean you didn't get my email about the money? ;)
    3
  3865. I can't even write it better than just reality
    3
  3866. That might be true if it weren't for much larger social patterns of oppression that such exclusion fits in and supports. It could be both sexist and 'why it works' as well.
    3
  3867. If I'm not mistaken it's linen rag paper and rebound sometime in the 19th or early 20th century. Not sure about the binding. But I think a mid-15th century dating can be had on paleographic grounds, if nothing else.
    3
  3868. But Agrippa does talk about reconciliation or restoration through mysticism (or specifically, through magic) and I think that's where he is in pretty heterodox territory.
    3
  3869. It's definitely to the Adamical state and Agrippa thinks of the sacraments within the magical framework - not vice versa. Stuff like that is clearly why he fell fowl of the Dominicans.
    3
  3870. No
    3
  3871. Welcome!
    3
  3872. Different Agrippa
    3
  3873. an interesting idea, but I'm not so sure.
    3
  3874. Maybe in some neo-myth making but not historically.
    3
  3875.  @tedhand6237  Honestly, I'm fine using the term. It's just a low resolution scope of analysis. You know I got to hang out with Dylan in Amsterdam a few times. Nice guy and into metal. Had no idea we were on lj together. What was his handle?
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  3876.  @hyperboreanarchives7299  I love you guys! I'm sure the feeling is mutual, right ;)
    3
  3877. That kinda struck me as odd too but I doubt there's any connection
    3
  3878. Eh, Moses did beat a dude to death with his bare hands so, there's that.
    3
  3879. aka paz to the zuzu
    3
  3880. I appreciate that!
    3
  3881. I'm blessed and thankful for all kinds of support and it all matters - from kind and thoughtful comments, likes, shares, and financial support. It all works together to make the channel possible and I'm deeply thankful for all of it. Hope the second jab goes ok!
    3
  3882. Fair enough - #rentstoodamnhigh
    3
  3883. Glad you think so!
    3
  3884. Thanks - glad you are liking my content!
    3
  3885. Academic channel - I check my yarmulke at the door like I expect everyone else to.
    3
  3886. Check out the FAQ on my website
    3
  3887. Seemed appropriate
    3
  3888. With a 10' pole :)
    3
  3889. many, many thanks!
    3
  3890. Yep
    3
  3891. The more you know know! 🌈
    3
  3892. Ask r. Yehuda Ashlag!
    3
  3893. Thanks!
    3
  3894. Going to happen eventually!
    3
  3895. Gotta love zoom...
    3
  3896. So, so many
    3
  3897. There's no evidence of Chinese influence on European alchemy
    3
  3898. There's no evidence of such an influence on Böhm, Hitchcock or Atwood. Ditto eliade or jung. Even Chinese alchemy functions wholly differently than western alchemy. Honestly we really shouldnt call it "Chinese alchemy" in the first place, it only adds to the confusion
    3
  3899. She is in the Jewish ones
    3
  3900. bespoke: "he had always answered that doctrines put into the mouth of the miracle-working Simeon ben Yohai would be a rich source of profit" - the wife of guy that made it all up "from his own head"
    3
  3901. Oh no, but blasphemy is welcome round here ;)
    3
  3902. I'm going with myth
    3
  3903. Yeah I was running an unfun fever filming this episode
    3
  3904. I'm definitely not. But, as long as a person is abiding by academic principles, practitioner or not, their scholarship should be just as appreciated as any other.
    3
  3905. Ah ! Thanks for letting me know !
    3
  3906. Yeah, I think I made that point as well "My god can beat up your god!"
    3
  3907. No, not at all
    3
  3908. Yep, demonic tutor lost the pentagram if I recall correctly
    3
  3909. There are no V's in Hebrew either only ב and ו if you wanted to be really pedantic - but guess in what language early scholarship on this subject was performed and what sound a w makes in that language ?
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  3910. You can use the super chat or become a patron over at Patreon!
    3
  3911. Those pesky judgey Jesuits
    3
  3912. Nah, Egyptian was spoken for a huge amount of time so it changed
    3
  3913. I wondered if that was going to have an effect on this video
    3
  3914.  @CBennett420  Totally possible but until we can definitively identity these plants, for me at least, the jury is out. The with recent discovery at Tel Arad, its looking more and more possible that religious cannabis used was present in the Ancient Near East.
    3
  3915. Was it a bad idea to record it with a mirror in the room?
    3
  3916. Thanks! - It's from one of Chopin's Nocturnes
    3
  3917. It definitely does not spell that
    3
  3918. Definitely not me, don't even know what that is
    3
  3919. Yeah, I should have sharpened the fins on the cork puller but, so it goes - didn't hurt the absinthe at least!
    3
  3920. eh, I just make weird videos for the internet.
    3
  3921. Yep same shoresh - even the modern hebrew for glue
    3
  3922. Most of the names of the Nag Hammadi tracts would make good metal band names.
    3
  3923. Links to their emails are in the pinned comment and in the description. Just please keep any communication with the college professional - of course I know you will thank you so much
    3
  3924. Flattered :)
    3
  3925. I knew someone would....
    3
  3926. I think the less you get a sense of my actual opinions the better a job I've done - this channel should always be more about the content than my opinions for sure
    3
  3927. Thanks for the a thoughtful and kind comment. It was a real honor to open the bottle and I'm happy to say that others will get the chance to try the absinthe as well!
    3
  3928. She must have been an amazing woman - great article on her https://www.jstor.org/stable/236573
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  3929. @Beauty by Roxie Respect for the transcendent nature of the divine, if there is such a thing.
    3
  3930. MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE
    3
  3931. Thanks for the generous support of the channel!
    3
  3932. Literally heading to the gym now. ✔️Stoicism
    3
  3933. Agora protein - mine is from Costco
    3
  3934. Because the Jesus movement started claiming Jesus was a god
    3
  3935. Specialists agree that it was produced by between 2-5 scribes. The "crazy person" hypothesis doesn't work.
    3
  3936. Important topic!
    3
  3937.  @ericgouw  Yep, an army of folks are working on that.
    3
  3938. I don't get any affiliate for brill and the whole set isn't on Amazon. Just buy two and give me one ;)
    3
  3939. This channel was never meant to be introductory in level. There are other great resources for that.
    3
  3940. I'm just glad the Lovecraft superfans didn't cancel me :)
    3
  3941. Of course, he's a marginally important historical character ;)
    3
  3942. yep
    3
  3943. Pretty sure that's just a Paladin
    3
  3944. always big time, b'li neder on those :)
    3
  3945. Do you have evidence for the authorship of the Gospel of Thomas?
    3
  3946. Yes yes yes
    3
  3947. It's not there at the end - Crowley adds "rushing fire" to the final binding exorcism.
    3
  3948. Same and probably.
    3
  3949. Hope not
    3
  3950. Who claims her as a feminist ?
    3
  3951.  @joshreynolds8417  Yeah...mo' esoteric mo' money.
    3
  3952. Thanks, friend. I'm glad you enjoy the content!
    3
  3953. Glad you enjoy it!
    3
  3954. Prexactly
    3
  3955. I'd love to and plan to do such in the future!
    3
  3956. Good to see you here - hope you are well, friend!
    3
  3957. Asking the real questions
    3
  3958. Great!
    3
  3959. Judaism
    3
  3960. Support
    3
  3961. L'chaim
    3
  3962. Glad you enjoyed it!
    3
  3963. Yeah, that's never going to happen.
    3
  3964. I hope that al kinds of folks find the content interesting from believers to skeptics. I'm just here to present the information the best I can and hope it helps folks along their journey, whatever journey that is.
    3
  3965. Awesome - thanks!
    3
  3966. Already did
    3
  3967.  @ron1313  not yet but I'm planning to get to it
    3
  3968. I agree about religion. I suspect we are probably hardwired for it and I doubt that it's going to wither own the vine no matter what social conditions exist. However, I am glad to see religion confined to personal belief and not state control or endorsement.
    3
  3969. $300 for 2 damn books, and pistis Sophia alone is over $300 - the rent is too damn high
    3
  3970. Next Episode
    3
  3971. No, that's a much later Jewish myth
    3
  3972. Yep - good eye!
    3
  3973.  @feelingbetternaturally1099  if you drink enough you see double, but no, absinthe is in no way psychedelic
    3
  3974.  @feelingbetternaturally1099  Of course, it's a wonderful drink but I don't want to perpetuate any myths. And, of course, there are other perfectly wonderful psychedelics out there for folks that want that experience.
    3
  3975. Who failed to behead him. Multiple times. and yes all the people swept up into his completely ridiculous exit stage left, especially the people who had to go to prison and for his poor wife and children who had to suffer the public embarrassment and sorrow of what their father had done.
    3
  3976. I've never understood the taboo around saying "yahweh" it's just an academic stand-in for the ancient Israelite God.
    3
  3977. Thanks - if we used diaeresis more frequently one wouldn't have to wonder!
    3
  3978. Blake would have never stopped rolling in his grave.
    3
  3979. Nah, just him cringing at people taking allegories for anything else. If there's one thing he for sure didn't want was another religion.
    3
  3980. Me too!
    3
  3981. Too late for the channel mostly
    3
  3982. It's pretty dated and non-academic
    3
  3983. Boring comments apparently are though
    3
  3984. Oh yeah, in the hopper!
    3
  3985.  @mazyar_  The Luther text relies on the idea that the Roman cult is based on a Persian religious continuity while has been disproven in recent years, the Christmas connection with sol invictus generally shows that many cults were vying for this, the Nabarz text isn't academically sound. Clauss makes a clear argument that for the Mithras cult to have directly influenced Christianity we would have to know about the ritual and mythology content of the cult - which we don't. Secondly, with the possible exception of the X-mas/Sol Invictus connection he contends convincingly there isn't a single verifiable connection. Typology similarity isn't history influence. Clauss' argument here is very solid and is he is generally taken the be the leading expert on the current state of studies on the Mithras cult. I see no evidence from current, reputable scholars for such a connection.
    3
  3986. ;)
    3
  3987. First us Jewish, second is Christian, third is 19th century occult correspondences
    3
  3988. We need a new form of goth - Labor Goth.
    3
  3989. I have no reason to believe to believe that anything akin to the entities described in these texts exist in any meaningful way.
    3
  3990. Antonio accepted the arguments from de sphaera - note the title there - but he was a geocentrist, which was reasonable at the time. Heliocentrism was several centuries out
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  3991. uhhh...if those are the only options I guess I would go with "mad arab" but also, no. just no.
    3
  3992. @Honey b. Meir maybe?
    3
  3993. People that laugh at others trying to communicate are the only people deserving scorn
    3
  3994. Thanks - He's a tough one to crack but there is a beauty to his thinking. I've enjoyed studying him for years!
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  3995. I'm not sure making up new stuff clarifies historical obscurity but sounds like fun just the same.
    3
  3996. def original gangster
    3
  3997. Yep!
    3
  3998. What does 𒀀 represent?
    3
  3999. Nope
    3
  4000. Nope, even more metal "battle duel"
    3
  4001. Absolutely - It's a lot of work but a very fascinating study. Hope my approach helps give you a handle on the material!
    3
  4002. Nope
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  4003. Yep!
    3
  4004. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's repugnant
    3
  4005. Nope, she seemed pretty amazing.
    3
  4006. I doubt the whole 12 tribes narrative - check out recent book The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities Across Time and Space by Tobolowsky for more
    3
  4007. Fascinating to know - thanks!
    3
  4008. Could be - I just think of it as cool legends.
    3
  4009. Many thanks and, yes, I agree with your sentiment. We should keep scouring the earth though I'm much more excited to find old texts than old boxes :)
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  4010. Thanks so much for saying so! Hope you find my content rewarding!
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  4011.  @MalloryWelch  Oh wow - thanks so much. I checked out your channel as well. Such a talent and such nice music. It's so amazing to meet such cool people on these parts!
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  4012. It's just a legend
    3
  4013. Thanks for this tip!
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  4014. ⚗️ 💪
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  4015. How do we even know Solomon did any of this? Probably all wonderful legends, IMHO
    3
  4016. A bit but not much
    3
  4017. yep...damn brill
    3
  4018. Man....that was an awesome, awesome show.
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  4019. Depends on the myth.
    3
  4020. He needs some milk!
    3
  4021. He kinda did but didn't pay it much attention
    3
  4022. Glad you enjoy it!
    3
  4023. Water dispenser for absinthe
    3
  4024. Message me on my website and I'll send it to you
    3
  4025. Nah, it's just because I basically translated this last week. Been doing a Lilith series way before it came out.
    3
  4026. Nope other channels have done a great job on it
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  4027. I would just encourage everyone to be as professional as possible in their correspondence. But, other than that, let em have it
    3
  4028. Yes - again, folks the answer is NO on flying ointments
    3
  4029. Always makes me chuckle - what a comedy of errors. Even Mishima's multiple failed beheadings and that the sword that was used was a fake antique only deepen how ridiculous it all was.
    3
  4030. I take them seriously as historical records, the rest is up to yall
    3
  4031. Oh what grids we have to show you!
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  4032.  @tedhand6237  Fair point and NP. I think I make the same point about alchemy not being a 'pseudo-science' in my alchemy misconceptions episode, as well. You'd be surprised (or not...) about how many comments from, let's call them 'ascended masters,' I get when I make an alchemy episode about how 'this isn't really alchemy' because alchemy apparently had nothing to do with actually working in a lab. I think if these episodes can help to turn that tide at all to appreciating these alchemists on their own terms an how in debt we are to their research I will have not totally failed.
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  4033. Thanks for the kind comment!
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  4034. That's what the Stoics would say...at least I think it is.
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  4035. Did I argue that?
    3
  4036. Yeah that stuff is seems like be bad news
    3
  4037. Gonna be a long wait ;)
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  4038. He was very influenced by Eliade and the Yates paradigm, both of which have come under sustained and devastating critiques in the past 30 or so years
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  4039. Look up the Tel arad shrine - you should find it
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  4040. Yep
    3
  4041. Glad you found the content interesting!
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  4042. That's a bingo
    3
  4043. Yep, might even be able to bring the scholar that worked on it on the channel. Got to meet him last year - great guy!
    3
  4044. Check out my episode on the various necromancers manuals
    3
  4045. It's not you, it's a strange idea. Thought is just the existence of thinking. Extension just means being extended in space. Any physical thing in order to occupy space must be extended in space thus "extension" as the quality of existing in physical space.
    3
  4046. Glad you appreciate them...'humor'
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  4047. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4048. The fact that he's Jewish (like Bobby Fisher in this regard) just boggles my mind.
    3
  4049. For real though
    3
  4050. Academics don't make such a distinction
    3
  4051. The contractors sinking sheetrock screws in the bathroom during renovations as I was shooting the episode :)
    3
  4052. There is a long tradition in western art of mm having red hair, etc (tbs there are many fair skinned, red haired Palestinians today as well). I also include a range of representations of her through history including the oldest ones known.
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  4053. Yeah bragging about genocide against tiny villages and ethnic groups is a real flex. I suspect he had a bit of a dad complex
    3
  4054. Yeah but I wonder when the Puti overlap began in Christian art?
    3
  4055. You're thinking of Anubis
    3
  4056. not sure about always, but generally, yes
    3
  4057. John Dee
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  4058. When logicians talk about truth they are referring to the possibility of any proposition being capable of true (or false) not the specific truth value of any given proposition. That's why formal logic deals with validity and not soundness.
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  4059. Yeah, that damned tank.
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  4060. T h I s
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  4061. Tomorrow!
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  4062. Good question - I'll have to dig up my sources. I'm culling a lot of this lecture from an 8 part lecture series I did on the prophets a few years ago.
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  4063. No, probably not. ​ @foxbutterfly-eden8715 
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  4064. Quite a compliment - especially coming for someone as amazing at magic as you - Thanks for watching and commenting!
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  4065. Yeah? Combinatory Logicians might disagree.
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  4066. Yep! I'll probably be doing an episode on the lait du Jura at some point as well!
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  4067. Yes
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  4068. Yep
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  4069. I doubt it - I think Cantor would just be on his team insofar as {א} equals God. In fact in his to discussion of infinities he has some sense that some infinities are larger than others, not in a set theory sense or even arithmetically - he discusses infinities of various intensities - but Scotus was a precursor in that way for sure.
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  4070. Yes, both
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  4071. I'm about em both
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  4072. Verily!
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  4073. That's fine - I'm on team "hope the Christians don't murder us more"
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  4074. I'm saying reality just is PNC
    3
  4075.  @profbri.02  Yeah, basically nothing is known about them. It'll be a short episode :)
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  4076. exactly
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  4077. I mean that's lieterally what the text says
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  4078. Or just the holy spirit
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  4079. Yep absolutely
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  4080. I'm just reporting the facts as they stand. The rest is up to y'all.
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  4081. I did mention Freemasonry
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  4082. Billions of people pray
    3
  4083. landed it
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  4084. Ha! - even better than rationalism having its origins in a fever dream than it being from the DTs :)
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  4085. Digital Hammurabi has classes!
    3
  4086. The Allen translation is highly praised
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  4087. It's mixed on dogs, especially the concept of the "vicious dog" which goes on to paint dogs as mostly bad in haredi circles
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  4088. That'd be my guess
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  4089. המבין יבין
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  4090. Yeah, the editions I have are piss poor too.
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  4091. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4092. Avodah Zara - "forms of religious practice anathema to Judaism"
    3
  4093. Less Israeli (note I don't typically use the uvular fricative / approximant /r/ sound) and more standard academic Sephardi, whatever that means. But yes, it does seem that the Yiddish accent on Hebrew is dying out in the non-Haredi world.
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  4094. Nope, you can read the book ;)
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  4095. Even the dad jokes here are esoteric
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  4096. They can't as they are under divine compulsion, as the theory goes
    3
  4097. Been thinking about that
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  4098. The least surprising thing about human beings is their hubris
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  4099. This is an important critique.
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  4100. I mean, they didn't think the Gods were evil. They just didn't think the Gods cared.
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  4101. Raw?
    3
  4102. Guilty as charged!
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  4103. It gets quoted in Jude but fell out of fashion and was recognized for what it is - pseudapigrapha
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  4104. .....hope not
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  4105. Kalonymos family
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  4106. Probably from the ✓היה "to exist"
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  4107. Hopefully for the better!
    3
  4108. The German Ideology definitely has a teleological bent to it.
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  4109. I think that's just because it was recorded....it runs the correct way in real life ;)
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  4110. Unfortunately YouTube got rid of crowd-based closed captioning which makes it very difficult to include languages I don't speak. I wish they would bring it back
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  4111. I think they would have to be more competent translators to do anything like that :)
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  4112. Still the only one
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  4113. It's just Hebrew for " the name"
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  4114. my man :)
    3
  4115. That's another spell
    3
  4116. But those buckle hats are basically a Victorian invention
    3
  4117. Yep, scheduled for the sping
    3
  4118. 19/20th century development of the myth
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  4119. Ask them for the solution for the Collatz conjecture. If they provide it you'll have my undivided attention.
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  4120. He's pretty clear that one can obtain magical powers even through doing evil in witchcraft. In fact he even says that Felicity is better than magic and higher than it.
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  4121.  @exposingpowerfullieslivest5082  Disagreeing with me how? I make academic content exploring topics in Esotericism. If you disagree with that why are you even here?
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  4122. Thanks for the recommendations!
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  4123. Great contemporary example
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  4124. Second temple
    3
  4125. Definitely not
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  4126. Glad to hear it! :)
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  4127. I'd have to be a Christian first to be a heretic.
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  4128. Yep, says Augustine
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  4129. Koresh's seven seals text is another on I want to get to as well
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  4130. "Goyim" just means "nations" and refers to Non-Israelites as far back as the Hebrew Bible. While it can be used as a slur (and such bigotry is never acceptable) it doesn't necessarily have that connotation.
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  4131. I seriously doubt any fame is coming my way :)
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  4132. De gustibus non est disputandum
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  4133. Thanks! I totally agree about the Craft - it's really a classic. I actually saw it when it came out and still have the classic Buckland text I bought after seeing the film - also looking forward to the 'remake.' I took a look at your channel and noticed that you were Greek - what's the occult scene like in Greece, if you don't mind me asking?
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  4134. Most philosophers would argue that it is exact human intention and labor that separates what is natural from what is artifice, i.e, the clockwork watch vs. the tree in the forest. Though where this line gets drawn exactly is debated as far back as Aristotle when he notes that nature is used in many different homonymous ways
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  4135.  @danterosati  Generally, I find the concept of 'nature' equivocal myself. It's like Augustine said of time - we all know what it is as long as we don't have to think about it much :)
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  4136. You are so welcome!
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  4137. Yep, going to do something on Enochian at some point. So.much.to.do!
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  4138. ἀδιάφορα = indifferent
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  4139. Ha! Glad you appreciate my attempts!
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  4140. No idea
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  4141. I kinda did it once but should do it again !
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  4142. "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers." - The Commiefesto
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  4143. Erik's content is amazing and well worth it !
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  4144. And neither are true
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  4145. Huh?
    3
  4146. Probably because the statistical properties of the text make that very unlikely
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  4147. I don't recall that - citation?
    3
  4148. Kids - it's the kids
    3
  4149. yeah that's right
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  4150. I don't think she ever reported such a condition - unlike Simone Weil or Hildegard.
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  4151. Yep skeet skeet skeet
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  4152. I feel like some kind of fun alarm should go off when that happens around here. Here's a ⭐. I heard from this dude once that we all stars ;)
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  4153. Oh yeah, they rock those Borsalinos
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  4154. My thoughts exactly...all the time
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  4155.  @withnail-and-i  never argued that - I teach Heidegger. I also think his thought we is profoundly flawed and his fascism is symbiotic with those flaws.
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  4156. Probably
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  4157. If any is on Damien's patreon and can make the connection I'd be grateful!
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  4158. If you can read Greek, Latin, Armenian, Coptic, etc., you can read the texts that survive in their original languages. Some Egyptian precursors of the CH may be something like Egyptian sapiential literature but it is rather different than the CH.
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  4159. No gatekeeping around here
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  4160. Yeah, sadly
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  4161. The demons really bring it out of ya
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  4162. Yep and ditto
    3
  4163. Fancy seeing you here 😀
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  4164. You can sometimes find them a seforim stores. Here is one for sale: https://seforimcenter.com/Raziel-HaMalach-Miniature-Size__p-4807.aspx only $1.50 for magical protection - not a bad deal!
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  4165. Yep!
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  4166. Yep, I was thinking the whole time.
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  4167. Sure thing - folks are always welcome to sit in. How are you holding up? I really miss being in the class room and can't wait to get back to it.
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  4168. Glad you found it useful content, best of luck on your studies!
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  4169. I did make one - https://youtu.be/pRb9vwk14OA?si=C3ft3_WKKq-6aTk1
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  4170. I think that section of Deut. is rather late and the Moloch sections are probably more of a memory of a practice than what was actually still being practiced. For instance, there are references to Josiah destroying Moloch sites, i.e., the infamous 'tophet' but no reference to them being used or persecuting the people that used such sites. If I'm correct that this section of Deut was basically written to justify the religio-political ambitions of Josiah then the actually practice - including much non-Jerusalem Yahweh worship such as at Tel Arad - would come an end prior to the writing of this text. However, Jeremiah does mention Molech worship a century later though it has a kind of historical ring to it as well. It's a bit of a razor margin and you are right to point this out. I could totally be wrong. It would be interesting to see when scholars like Dever think that non-Yahweh worship went extinct in the region.
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  4171. Explaining the jokes on this channel are a surefire way of making people think that you're crazy
    3
  4172. "Shabbat Tzatziki" yes. this.
    3
  4173. Extension is an attribute of God, or [sive] God is an extended thing” 2P2. All attributes are true of God. Extension is an attribute. QED.
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  4174.  @kyleoverman9224  Def a prodigy....or in need of an exorcist :)
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  4175. I'm not a rabbi but I'm glad you enjoy the content!
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  4176.  @sergeybot  none taken, I just don't want to take a title I don't deserve. So glad you like the content - thanks for watching!
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  4177. It's the overwhelming position of academic scholars of Yahwism
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  4178. "Lilith" isn't Sumerian, the Lil(u) were. Lilith is resides in Jewish, and kinda Mandaean, demonology. Though, as I point out in my translation notes, I don't think Lilith would be impressed with this diddy, given her place in post-kabbalah Jewish demonology.
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  4179. Best place to begin studying alchemy - chemical transmutation was always impossible
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  4180. The real treasure was the Brill we found along the way
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  4181.  @kingcole1971  I'll do an episode on them at some point !
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  4182. Daniel Matt - The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
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  4183. Not in historical texts
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  4184. You and me both
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  4185. A few and rye :)
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  4186. Yep, that's my understanding.
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  4187. Yes. Yes.
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  4188. Because that was the oldest sources of wisdom they had access to....and they were pretty smart
    3
  4189. I'm very doubtful of such claims - mostly because we know very little about such writings - literally only one fragmentary demotic priestly text exists.
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  4190.  @thetruth4654  nope and who knows what anything Heraclitus said meant?
    3
  4191. I was already sight translating it for the episode last week and never let potential content go to waste :)
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  4192. And less poetic
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  4193. Augustine vibes
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  4194. Japanese puzzle boxes
    3
  4195. Oh nice - it's interesting that only English doesn't seem to use it....even German!
    3
  4196. Thanks again!
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  4197. I was waiting for this comment. Thanks for delivering on it!
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  4198. Planning to do something of a stream about that on Atun-Shei's channel
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  4199. There's a whole playlist on the channel.
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  4200. There wasn't a stream today
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  4201. I generally agree
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  4202. I've never seen any evidence to support such a claim.
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  4203. In the works!
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  4204. Wow - you're seen more esoterica than I have
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  4205. Gently hammer ;)
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  4206.  @MrAlexanderrangel  Great point - I spent a good bit of time working to learn to read classical Maya on a extended trip to the region that sadly didn't happen because of Zica virus. It was very disappointing and I hope to be able to return to the region. The channel is going to cover a wider range of topics as I get time and research done including branching out - either by myself or other experts - to other forms of esotericism - we are already focusing on ancient near-eastern topics, including this video. I also have an episode planned on some aspects of the ch'ahb' rituals around the tzak glyph - especially how power relations were shared by both priestly and 'secular' power in the classical city states as famously depicted on lintel 24 at Yaxchilan. I thought it was an especially poetic and beautiful image relating to mysticism and esotericism and I am looking forward to the channel reaching further and wider as my own and others academic expertise allows. Thanks for your patience in that process.
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  4207. Coming next year
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  4208. Neat! Nice to know about this!
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  4209. Of course, thanks for watching!
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  4210. Hope you enjoy this one - not so much narrative but lots about ancient ghosts!
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  4211. I'm pretty sure they're not actually real but sure
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  4212. Weird! I've never had much trouble except in some haredi bookshops with reticence to sell me something
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  4213. The answer is on the FAQ on my web page
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  4214. There is generally some idea that they are connected or, perhaps, Sadducee-adjacent but exactly how is anyone's guess.
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  4215. John of Rupescissa was mostly using alchemy in an extended apocalyptic metaphor I think. Also he was a general outlier - his contemporaries thought he was positively insane
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  4216. A true outlaw and martyr - May his merit protect us
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  4217. Why not both?
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  4218. It's coming ;)
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  4219. Link in the comments!
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  4220. Book list in the description!
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  4221. Thanks for watching!
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  4222. I also like the idea that even this channel has niche topics ;)
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  4223. Thanks for watching!
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  4224. Precisely because no one in the 18th century could have forged this. No one could even forge it now.
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  4225. Why not both?
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  4226. https://youtu.be/cC6xCyFJ1Ro
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  4227. Doing my best - thanks for the kind words!
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  4228. Thanks for dropping by - Check out my other episodes on absinthe as well!
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  4229. Thanks so much - hope you stick around!
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  4230. Thank you kindly!
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  4231. "my demiurge can beat up your demiurge!"
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  4232. Psychosis
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  4233. But not all breakdowns are mere breakdowns some breakdowns are breakthroughs
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  4234. Yeah I have and want to but I'm a one-man operation and it's pretty difficult to find the capacity to do much else aside from producing one of these extremely complicated episodes every week
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  4235. Trying to, brother - hope you're well!
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  4236. Trinitite and the siren scene from the Odyssey
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  4237. Yeah, that's what we do around these parts.
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  4238. Thanks ! Glad you found it interesting!
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  4239. Same way people are religious and that doesn't work either.
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  4240. I have read him, not so much sure about the predictions
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  4241. Sadly, it does. Seemed endemic in the mid-20th century.
    3
  4242. Thanks for the kind donation and supporting my work!
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  4243. C V L T
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  4244. Oh no....I think half the comments are about Slayer - You're in the right place :)
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  4245.  @Kmurray9244  Hell man, if we can't have fun while we learn together then what's the point. \m/
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  4246. I've covered some of those ideas in my episode on the cryptic Dead Sea Scrolls if you are curious
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  4247. They're not etymologically related.
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  4248. Given that spiritual creatures are sensed directly by the mind and not through sight - at least according to medieval folks - I don't see what not being able to see them with your eyes should be a problem
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  4249. Appreciate that - welcome!
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  4250. You know I'm pretty torn about it. I tend to agree with Michael Allen Williams that the category itself might be fundamentally problematic. But I think that conversation is super interesting and may do a video about that - "Were there Gnostics"?" Hope you are doing well, brother!
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  4251. My dog ;)
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  4252. Like Allah Snack Bars
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  4253. Many thanks for this kind donation!
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  4254. I'd say so
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  4255. Not really - philosophers really like the idea of being supremely rational, logical, etc., and anything that disrupts that narrative freaks them out for some reason.
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  4256. He didn't jump off a building - he fell escaping from prison....the second time around.
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  4257.  @billc3114  apparently he badly broke his leg(s) and died a few days later.
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  4258. Thanks for your appreciation and thanks for watching!
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  4259. Yep by kewl kids
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  4260. I can't claim to have ever really figured a lot of that stuff out. I always thought it was super neat to learn about!
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  4261. Exactly, made at the same demon factory but on the cheap sonehow
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  4262. Good stuff too!
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  4263. it was the classic white on black NIИ shirt
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  4264. It's a neat story, that's true. But this video only covers vampire folklore until around the time of Calmet, c. 1750
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  4265. Yes, I do hold both of those positions
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  4266. It's possible but I think they are more likely permutations or fragments of Hebrew / Aramaic words (and some Greek). Thanks so much for your kind words and happy holidays to you and yours!
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  4267.  @bluellamaslearnbeyondthele2456  Yep...It's actually a verse of Job that isn't a total mystery!
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  4268.  The Star  It's an interrogative Heh not the def. article.
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  4269. Like staying up to 3 in the morning drinking absinthe with cool people?
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  4270. Or we're just wrong in complimentary ways ;)
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  4271. Inquisitional law allowed for property seizure for heresy prior to the malleus.
    3
  4272. Nah, just a distillation setup. I don't fux with weed, makes me think I'm gonna die 💯
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  4273. Not yet!
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  4274. The Zohar revels in making the non-sacred radically sacred so it's possible these sections were suppressed as being too radical. We won't know until more fragments are found and published.
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  4275. No that's a 20th forgery
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  4276. Thanks for being around, friend!
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  4277. Throwback
    3
  4278. Yep everything but Esther and they are mostly written in square script though some are in the more ancient Paleo-hebrew script
    3
  4279. Nope, violates copyright law in most jurisdictions
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  4280. Another one bites the dust ;)
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  4281. Traditional Kabbalah doesn't have anything to do with Tarot and the 19th century hermetic correspondences don't really make much sense given historical kabbalistic texts.
    3
  4282. Would be super easy for a computer to check this
    3
  4283. "s o b e r"
    3
  4284. Energy?
    3
  4285. Hopefully more to come - maybe even an Esoterica event at Boleskine in the future!
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  4286. Oh it was going well before the spirits started yammering
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  4287. Yeah the column tips, that must have been a real bummer
    3
  4288. Yep, this is kinda the deep one
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  4289. These Modes are logical consequences of IPXX & XXI - Alison Peterman has a good article on this topic in her Spinoza on Extension, though I don't think Spinoza ever worked out a coherent idea of what this meant. Even his contemporaries were positively puzzled by the concept and his letters seemed to have only made it worse. I love Spinoza as much as the next guy but this is a serious problem in his system.
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  4290. People make a big deal about Dee as a spy and cryptographer but there is no evidence of him knowing much about the advances in cryptography even during his lifetime, the development of the Vigenère cipher by Bellaso in the 1560s, for instance. Dee couldn't even figure out the rather simple algorithm that produced the Book of Soyga he was fascinated by in the early 1580s. Further, any code-like stuff in the angel diaries is really simple matrix manipulation and a single poly-alphabetic cipher with all that buried treasure / alchemy stuff. I think the Dee cloak & dagger stuff is mostly hype.
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  4291. I'm guessing leprosy free water, right?
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  4292. Thanks for watching and commenting!
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  4293. Contact me via my website and let's get it sorted
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  4294. Yeah, the D&D references are strong with this channel
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  4295.  @cosmiccrunch8591  I'm pretty sure they were just a myth, and to defend Brill their books are very high quality, absolutely not public domain material, and are mostly meant to be sold to libraries which do, in fact, make them very accessible. As much as I crap on them, I literally just check our Brill books all the time. It's that easy.
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  4296.  @cosmiccrunch8591  Sure, in museums and archives, if you read Ugaritic, Phoenician, etc. But I'm pretty sure myths are just that, from gods to ghosts - it's just made up stories to make sense of a world that we find ourselves ultimately powerless in.
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  4297. I don't think Aristotle could have wrapped his head around Newtonian mechanics, honestly.
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  4298. Chapter 26 and 29 of Ezekiel. That's two, although most Hebrew Bible didn't really do future oriented prophecy. You can find my paypal in the pinned comment.
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  4299. Ha - More on that this week!
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  4300. Coming.... eventually
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  4301.  Leigh Leigh  magical characters from the Sefer HaRazim
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  4302. There's a heaping dose of Aleister Crowley in there so :)
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  4303. For sure, trust me I had 'tantra' in scare quotes the whole time here
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  4304.  @GeneralGuitFiddle  the Wakefield text
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  4305. Clues abound by watching the episode!
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  4306. I'll get to it. Though, it's not as interesting as it might appear.
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  4307.  @brianatkinson3516  Yeah being wildly wrong is irritating
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  4308.  @samuelshepard  not sure what to tell you - most of the episode is a joke. No new Zohar fragment, no Genizah.
    3
  4309. Uhhhhhh...ish?
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  4310. You are welcome - glad to share and hope folks find the content useful and interesting.
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  4311. Yep, they are like talismans. I don't know that they are dangerous or anything but just ways to 'focus' magical power so the theory goes.
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  4312. Anything that comes in a large plastic handle-sized container.
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  4313. You're telling me...
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  4314. Ha it's mostly fluff in there!
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  4315. e x a c t l y
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  4316. I'm in the same boat :)
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  4317. Perhaps that's why I was confused. I don't know Arabic and actually heard two different pronunciations - perhaps the difference between standard and a dialect. At any rate - I'm always happy to learn and especially excited to follow Dr. Saif's important scholarship.
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  4318. Verily
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  4319. I don't really work on contemporary stuff
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  4320. It's great to read both the Hermetica against the more Gnostic stuff from the same time. It would have been great to have seen these folks debate 1700 years ago! Welcome, friend - glad to have you with us!
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  4321.  @davidhays2846  mosin nagant - for when Nazis hide behind things
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  4322. Consult your local religious leader...or don't.
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  4323. Mayhaps - who knows?
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  4324. I suspect he was executed, probably as a perceived insurrectionist, and buried. There is no evidence for the resurrection because it is impossible. No one, including Jesus of Nazareth, came back from the dead, despite my love for the zombie genre. Mythology is simply the term myself and other scholars use for such (very important) tales. I would use the same language of any religion, mine included.
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  4325. Mayhaps !
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  4326. a fish!
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  4327. Nope
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  4328. There's virtually no evidence of a United monarchy and many scholars doubt its existence.
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  4329. I'm fairly confident that's Saul and David were both minor regional warlords
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  4330. No no no
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  4331. I don't think there are any gods but assuming traditional theology I think it's a nonsense question.
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  4332. Get in line
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  4333. Odin, what a con-man.... con-god
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  4334. I think she was all of 19 in that painting
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  4335. Yep I've had that one!
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  4336. Glad you enjoyed it - been wanting to get to this material for a while
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  4337. Break next week + 3 year / 300k celebration then the books of jeu !
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  4338.  @jbaquinones  Just glad to be helpful, brother!
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  4339. Maybe !
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  4340. It's already digitized
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  4341. Hope I know what I'm talking about :)
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  4342. Wonderful!
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  4343. Yep, and the mythological schools of magic in medieval Spain!
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  4344. I'm not sure they got that deep, a lot of 'know how' but less 'know that' in the ancient world.
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  4345. Thanks so much and welcome aboard!
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  4346. Nope but words change meaning over time
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  4347. I doubt it but it could be that she did suffer from some kind of mental illness
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  4348. Literally staring at a wall > the history channel
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  4349. Brill's prices are the only devil I believe in
    3
  4350. Because I don't have social media because it scares the hell out of me
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  4351. I'm probably not
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  4352. Too recent. This channel really only covers topics pre 1750
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  4353. Understandable. Also, don't watch tomorrow's drop.
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  4354. Well, can't pick Abel and Cain isn't exactly a good guy, so Seth it is
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  4355.  @2024HaranHassan  Nope, not really
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  4356.  @2024HaranHassan  No, I don't believe in any gods.
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  4357. Maybe Vision and the Voice, probably not the rest any time soon
    3
  4358. Tool song
    3
  4359. This episode is that.
    3
  4360. I would say the opposite - both are 100% myths
    3
  4361. Me either
    3
  4362. Luckily, it's not zero-sum. We both offer different approaches to the same field so we compliment each other well so, why not both!
    3
  4363. That would take things into modernity a bit more than I do on this channel. Maybe Dr. Puca could do so!
    3
  4364. Would be cool to have a line of beers named after mystics!
    3
  4365. Probably Mabel Collins
    3
  4366. With your kind help - looking forward to chatting Wednesday evening!
    3
  4367. The New Oxford Annotated Bible is the best academic translation, imho. The Alter translations is nice for reading the text as literature.
    3
  4368.  @bluellamaslearnbeyondthele2456  Nah, Robert Alter.
    3
  4369. Yeah, tracks
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  4370. Kalonymus ben/bat Kalonymus
    3
  4371. D&D
    3
  4372. Thanks and welcome - Glad you find the content interesting!
    3
  4373. yep yep yep
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  4374. When it gets made ;)
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  4375. I hope not literally :)
    3
  4376. Wheelchair or winged chariot throne ? Why not both ?
    3
  4377. Was planning to make that into an episode - did you see my other Hildegard episode?
    3
  4378. None of that is true
    3
  4379. Goat, z"l
    3
  4380. Trust me, you wouldn't want that. ;)
    3
  4381. Edgey - got any more?
    3
  4382. On time? for, uh, necromancy? ;)
    3
  4383. Any sense of what happens if you breathe in all that mastic smoke?
    3
  4384. Yeah, I say that
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  4385. Yep!
    3
  4386. I have a whole video about learning ancient languages including Latin
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  4387. Was a fun one to make and a little explored topic for whatever reason
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  4388. Thanks though I'm not sure learning this stuff is crucial for world change or anything. Interesting, though !
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  4389.  @arnabchakraborty6763  Yep, I know the text. My criticism isn't that it's 'translated' but that it's non-sense. The text was completed invented in the mid-20th century. The word fraud comes to mind.
    3
  4390. Made up nonsense
    3
  4391. This is really neat - I don't really know anything about Filipino esotericism so thanks for sharing your insights.
    3
  4392. Or just don't read Hebrew
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  4393. Ha! 百花齊放，百家爭鳴
    3
  4394. Many thanks!
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  4395. gotta poke fun at that goober when I can ;)
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  4396. My pleasure and thanks for watching!
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  4397. I answer this in the episode
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  4398. Thanks for your generous donation and kind comment !
    3
  4399. Nah, that's silly
    3
  4400. I can only imagine - you won't find any of that around here.
    3
  4401. Yeah those equations are no joke but damn elegant
    3
  4402. I that number is rather substantial and am somewhat curious of beliefs born of such a reaction-formation. I've always admired a great deal of Christian philosophers even if the mythology never made the least sense to me.
    3
  4403. Anything by Scholem.
    3
  4404. Yep though Marx was Jewish in ethnic background only - I mention Marxism as an apocalypticism in my episode on it
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  4405. Nah, they do jew-jutsu
    3
  4406. I've not but sounds interesting
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  4407. Thanks - debuting later today!
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  4408. Check out the channel called let's talk religion for Islamic mysticism
    3
  4409. Wouldn't it be a daisey to find some of this stuff!
    3
  4410. The Paramirum is theoretical. The Archidoxis Magica is practical Paracelsian magic.
    3
  4411. Yeah, I really think that's a way for modern folks to get a handle on what happened.
    3
  4412. Why?
    3
  4413. I haven't heard this - what's the reference?
    3
  4414. Women as Life and Man as clay - that's literally what the Hebrew means. The command was not to eat given to Adam, not to Eve.
    3
  4415. Hi friend! Absolutely - working on an episode for the Chaldean Oracles soon. Will get around to the to the mystery cults as well! Thanks so much for your support of the channel!
    3
  4416. Key take away
    3
  4417. I literally started nothin' ;) But, these institutions need to do right.
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  4418. Charles Nicholl has written an account of Kelley's last days that I see as very solid. Wooley's book is a little dated at this point....I think it is like 20 years old.
    3
  4419. Interesting! Folks should also check out Stewart's awesome book as well - The Green Book of the Élus Coëns - 0853185999
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  4420. Y e s
    3
  4421. Look at the scan of the 1533
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  4422. No idea
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  4423. Thanks and most welcome !
    3
  4424. It's lit!
    3
  4425. That's Hesiod's model not Aristotle's.
    3
  4426. Yes. Yes I have. I've considered dressing up as Alfie Solomons every day.
    3
  4427. Zefinzetzee
    3
  4428. Probably worked as well as prayer and billions have done that for millennia
    3
  4429. Thanks, and I'm pretty sure they don't know this channel even exists.
    3
  4430. Robert Sepher is pseudo-science at it's worst and often just downright anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
    3
  4431. I've seen his stuff - it's wonderful!
    3
  4432. https://www.maisonabsinthe.com/balancier-see-saw-single-server-dripper/
    3
  4433. I think it's worth it - not some groundbreaking movie or anything but really solid at what it does. It's great when a movie has a modest goal and nails it - this one does that. Great to hear from you!
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  4434. Solvent/oil canister for a mosin nagant
    3
  4435. Chemosh
    3
  4436. Learn Latin
    3
  4437. I asked him about it and yep, still prepping a new edition
    3
  4438. And risk getting demonetized
    3
  4439. I know, hacked what a pity
    3
  4440. Interesting cast of characters for sure!
    3
  4441. Who knows? Since it's in Latin letters it could be נסע or נשא or even נָשָׁא but those verb forms aren't in the infinitive at any rate - they are in the 3rd person masculine singular if that matters.
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  4442. No stupid questions around here !
    3
  4443. I don't think gods or demons are real
    3
  4444. Whole episode on Spinoza and federici
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  4445. Glad you thought so - thanks!
    3
  4446. It's been mostly discredited
    3
  4447.  @johnmanole4779  One is French (mostly) nonsense masquerading as philosophy. The other is numerology masquerading as physics.
    3
  4448. Alchemical texts use this trope but it's rather ubiquitous in medieval conceptions of trade success
    3
  4449. It could be, though I always think of the One Ring as be associated witht he ring of Gyges from the Republic but I'm sure he took from all manner of sources.
    3
  4450. Yep, the modern editor explores that possible connection and concludes there probably isn't one.
    3
  4451. The fastest draw on youtube!
    3
  4452. aaaahhhhhhhhh
    3
  4453.  @bzeliotis  Looks like an interesting translation.
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  4454. There's no scholarly consensus on who's represented on the relief or what any of the animal symbolism means, the talon-feet are especially unusual if it's Ishtar. Though, what's odd is that whatever it is there are other stamped-clay depictions of the same being (one of them appears in the episode). My guess (and I think Irving Finkel's position, fwiw) is that it's Ereshkigal, but the jury's gonna be out on this one for a while I think.
    3
  4455. I can't think of a single ancient culture that doesn't single out maleficent women magic users as especially bad.
    3
  4456. Thanks! It's an interesting topic especially given the finds at Tel Arad. Though, I think this is largely an etymological question and not being an expert there I should probably hold my tongue.
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  4457. Evidence - claiming codes and such isn't evidence. If me making a simple demand around actual historical evidence makes you lose respect for me than I am extraordinarily happy to be profoundly disrespected by you.
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  4458. Protestant enters the chat ;)
    3
  4459. Yep hence the "here in Michigan" line
    3
  4460. This is an academic channel - I mostly keep my opinions to myself, except during live streams
    3
  4461. Yep, some
    3
  4462.  @InitiateOfTheMuse  So what do the glyphs on the top right of the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra mean?
    3
  4463.  @micahtdoggknight9728  There's no such thing.
    3
  4464. This is pretty technical kabbalah
    3
  4465. It wasn't yet distinct at that time
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  4466. None really
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  4467. ​ @SobekLOTFC  I am the work and I am the lazy
    3
  4468. Veridical !
    3
  4469. For sure, check out Hildegard of Bingen's music !
    3
  4470. For sure, intoxication is a deep need for human beings. Hell, even non-human animals do it!
    3
  4471. Can you provide me the actual historical text in which this "prophecy" was first uttered?
    3
  4472. Jesus powers
    3
  4473. Indeed!
    3
  4474. My beliefs are discussed on my FAQ.
    3
  4475. Yep - the original MS can be viewed here: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00037155/images/
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  4476. What does NPC me do? Please don't say run a YT channel ;)
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  4477. Derrida stuff? nah
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  4478. Whatever cranks your tractor!
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  4479. No, just some fake scrolls
    3
  4480. I'm on #teamtrypho
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  4481. Thanks! I might do that!
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  4482. My problem is that he attributes that position to Scotus despite the fact that Scotus clearly rejected it - something Deleuze is known to do to other philosophers (for instance forcing the A of the deduction onto Kant which clearly he rejected...hence him writing the B version and sticking to it). Scotus was by no means the first to come to the concept - it was widely known and rejected by Thomas, etc.
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  4483. Jesus was a rabbi, of sorts, so....yeah.
    3
  4484. Huh?
    3
  4485. I mean, everything on this channel trips my BS detector - it's an academic channel, studying the material rigorously doesn't at all imply believing in any of it.
    3
  4486. Just trying to do my part of making info available but trying to keep folks safe
    3
  4487. Oh yeah, that's part of why I had his equations here!
    3
  4488. Thanks for the advice. I've head this from a few folks and I'm going to do some more research on making the thumbnails work better for the channel! EDIT - Just did a revamp of the thumbnails. Let me know what you think and thanks for the honest criticism!
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  4489. Oh that's just old fashioned Aristotlean logic in modern notation, not even in modern logic.
    3
  4490. Yep
    3
  4491. Literally
    3
  4492. or I'm totally wrong....or both somehow.
    3
  4493. You know I have that exact record - it's great....and weird.
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  4494. It's a distant possibility
    3
  4495. They're Quincy Morris with a Bowie knife
    3
  4496. Addressed in other comments.
    3
  4497. Their claims didn't survive cryptologic peer review that's enough for me to note it as a failed decryption
    3
  4498.  @tedhand6237  Of course - I'm about that mutual aid life. I'd love to be on. Can you contact me via my website? It would be so great to chat!
    3
  4499. And we have material evidence of their existence. Where is that evidence for the Cathar church? We have it for other sects of the time, curiously enough.
    3
  4500. Yep!
    3
  4501. Oh, this wasn't my first rodeo with this rig, etc.
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  4502. Thanks so much for your kind comment - doing my best to make high quality content and glad folks are enjoying it!
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  4503. :) Lot of dork humor around here. I also DM!
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  4504. Is that your real name?
    3
  4505.  @daughterofdivine.313  name of a famous "witch" at Salem and and also metal band !
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  4506. I largely agree, but that's the critique and I thought I should mention it.
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  4507. I'd love to get back that way. Hope you're well!
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  4508. No, it was around but he certainly radicalized it.
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  4509. I have doubts about both ascended humans and angels ;)
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  4510. really getting into those samhain vibes, huh ? ;)
    3
  4511. I'm religious, in a sense, but this is an academic channel.
    3
  4512. Well written you say?
    3
  4513. yep, probably
    3
  4514. Many thanks !
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  4515. Long, long arc - but this is the first of a series so, I'll eventually get to it. might be a minute, though.
    3
  4516. These days they're just called shareholders
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  4517. Congratulations on the new job!
    3
  4518. Yes. Yes
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  4519. It's not really hidden, it's just that a lot of English language text on Kabbalah are pretty crappy. Daat is introduced primarily as a way of saving the 10ness of the system given that keter is utterly transcendent
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  4520. Yep for sure!
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  4521. Congrats!
    3
  4522. Some folks the Abramelin is good for that. Check out my episode on it.
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  4523. Anything in the Penn history of magic series m, Thorndike's history of magic, stc
    3
  4524. It's Israelite literature: nothing more, nothing less.
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  4525. Thanks - always happy when my sense of humor is appreciated :) Welcome Aboard!
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  4526. Common features I think, but very early here - a century before Eckhart
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  4527. Really - that's really unusual considering it wasn't re-discovered until 1896. Sure it's the same text?
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  4528. I was contacted by that "journalist" who refused to even quote me questioning the "kroth" narrative. It's mind boggling. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
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  4529. planned - I'm sure this could be a many, many part series.
    3
  4530. :) yep, this ain't an introductory channel
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  4531. No, I'm not a rabbi and this is from an academic perspective.
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  4532. Mostly underlines and notes of fact specifically about the prosecution process. That strikes me as interested in the doing of the prosecution.
    3
  4533. I don't think there's much of a connection
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  4534. Yeah I need to convert everything to mp3s at some point
    3
  4535. Maybe doing some more film analysis in the future - stay tuned!
    3
  4536. Uh...I don't think so
    3
  4537. Madimi showed up axing 'bout tree-fiddy!
    3
  4538. But only when καθήκοντα
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  4539. But you are correct oekeiosis is dreadfully missing from dude bro stoicism.
    3
  4540. Upcoming
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  4541. Thanks! Hope you stick around!
    3
  4542. ;)
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  4543. I can see that - but I think it's important to name and acknowledge what we know and what we don't, at least from the scholarly perspective. Being honest about that is a pretty reliable antidote to those that peddle non-sense in the guise of wisdom.
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  4544. Nah, Yahweh didn't. Good for him, though, not existing and all.
    3
  4545. I don't think any gods exists or anything 'supernatural'
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  4546. and that's why you don't invite prophets to parties ;)
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  4547. I try...to exist
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  4548. Definitely, it's really the start of the Anglo-Saxon myth-history
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  4549. Don't I wish ;)
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  4550. Hadewijch
    3
  4551. According to many such texts, yes
    3
  4552. Most scholars now reject the idea that they were used to trap demons.
    3
  4553. Wow I haven't thought about Twardowski or Brentano in a hot minute - grad school flash backs ;)
    3
  4554. Fair enough!
    3
  4555. Multiple copies in the number of orders of magnitudes of which not a single fragment survives?
    3
  4556. Hard concur
    3
  4557. Yes to wishing that feature existed. The YT search system is very underpowered
    3
  4558. There's a link in the description of that video for where to purchase that alembic
    3
  4559. Her friends call her Patty
    3
  4560. Yes, verily
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  4561. Nope
    3
  4562. There's no evidence they knew about Chinese alchemy
    3
  4563. Now we're talking
    3
  4564. Thanks brother, shavuah tov!
    3
  4565. Where are there emerald tablets in Exodus ?
    3
  4566. What a great word!
    3
  4567. You're absolutely right, Chris! Thoth-Hermes - and the 'occult' sciences associated with them - really has had a profound impact and it's amazing how little it gets discussed. Hope you are well and let's chat again soon!
    3
  4568. Check the video description
    3
  4569. Verily and most true.
    3
  4570. This is downstream of the texts discussed in this episode
    3
  4571. me too
    3
  4572. Thanks!
    3
  4573. Not much - they are pretty mysterious!
    3
  4574. The low chronology is basically rejected by everyone, even Finkelstein is walking it back these days.
    3
  4575. Yeah, that line is just wondeful!
    3
  4576. Thanks for this thoughtful comment!
    3
  4577. One would think, but no - they are false friends. It's pretty clearly coming from the shoresh s-p-r especially given the writer of the SY 'puns' on that several times. The image of the 'sefirot' as 'spheres' doesn't appear until hundreds of years later and, just as much as they are 'spheres' they are also 'lines' which, for some reason, doesn't get as much play.
    3
  4578. Oh definitely about the vanitate
    3
  4579. That's a real gem!
    3
  4580. Neo-𝔊𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔱𝔥
    3
  4581. No it's a little late for the time period of the channel
    3
  4582. I have mid-roll ads turned off. YT must have put them there against my wishes.
    3
  4583. That's how we keep the lights on. They're always in the same place so they're easy to skip. Unless you can find a grant to fund the channel that's just the price of keeping this channel going.
    3
  4584. If I can achieve Gibbon levels of dry humor then I have won at life.
    3
  4585. Cotton eye joe
    3
  4586. There has to be a guy that reads it out loud to get the movie going. I'm that guy.
    3
  4587. I've read it many times - seems harmless!
    3
  4588. I'm just talking about mythology.
    3
  4589. Schrodinger's equation
    3
  4590. Yeah, I do want to do that for those with space on their battle vests.
    3
  4591.  @beepboop204  Plato would hated capitalism for all the reasons he hated democracy
    3
  4592. Probably and if not there should be
    3
  4593. Damnit, Dan - I don't the insurance will cover this one.
    3
  4594. It's the store option on the channel!
    3
  4595. Thanks, Dennis. Anytime I can cover the "Old Ones" of the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible, it's always fun. And yes, that tension between radical monotheism and the desire to "depopulate heaven" as the phrase has a sustained history, down till now - at least in Judaism. Wonderfully interesting material!
    3
  4596. Thanks for making it possible!
    3
  4597. Glad you enjoyed the ride!
    3
  4598. "Flip it and reverse it" the rest is commentary, go and do.
    3
  4599. We should start a support group "Young People Scarred by Kant"
    3
  4600. Yep, very rarely if ever is anything just born from whole cloth, as they say
    3
  4601. or the millions of French people that drank them in the belle epoque.
    3
  4602. The wikipedia article on the Habiru is a solid start. The sources list there are all solid literature.
    3
  4603. No such instructions are known to my knowledge
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  4604. I just present the information academically - of course how you sort it out from your religious beliefs is up to you!
    3
  4605. I'm sure they'd appreciate it!
    3
  4606. Of course - stay tuned for new content most Fridays!
    3
  4607. There's basically no evidence for 'spiritual alchemy' prior to the 18th century - even then it's somewhat a revisionism - and was basically invented in the 19th & 20th centuries.
    3
  4608.  @willemkossen  I talk about it a bit in my episode on alchemy misconceptions - Mary Anne Atwood is really the ground zero for the idea (and Jung to a degree as well). Here "Dissertation" was incredibly influential in the development of the idea. It's certainly an interesting current just historically disconnected from the historical practice of alchemy.
    3
  4609. Etz Chaim is the 'systematic' presentation of the teachings of the Arizal, Pri is a collection of kavanot, prayers and other tikkunim in the custom of the Arizal. Etz then Pri...which makes sense :)
    3
  4610. Yep, I mentioned that in the episode.
    3
  4611. Wolves in the throne room, krallice, panopticon, Abigail Williams, etc
    3
  4612. Thanks and thanks for your support!
    3
  4613. Thanks to you for saying so!
    3
  4614. Thanks, River! Glad to see you around these parts again!
    3
  4615.  @anousseeker  Yep - its the Maya glyph for "to have a vision"
    3
  4616. Verily
    3
  4617. Yep, sadly
    3
  4618. Yep, often enthusiastically.
    3
  4619.  @republiccooper  Yeah, people are confusing to me most of the time.
    3
  4620. I already did
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  4621. I do videos basically every week and livestreams every three weeks or so - next one will be on the 30th probably.
    3
  4622. Historical importance
    3
  4623. Nah, its Thoth!
    3
  4624. Mississippi the Pitbull
    3
  4625. Related, sure. Text accurate to the best editions? No. Fun movie though - I have content about it.
    3
  4626. oh great - - feel free to share a link if she made it available!
    3
  4627. Nope
    3
  4628. Moabite
    3
  4629. Yeah, that language is definitely exorcistic, but could also be referring to a range of 'demons' as well
    3
  4630. Thanks - but, which distinction? ;)
    3
  4631. I'd have to know a ton more about music
    3
  4632. I mean on basically every metric that we have people are living far better lives than they ever have been so I think we have learned important lessons from the past of course there's still lessons to learn and only one generation of forgetting can do irreparable harm.
    3
  4633. No idea why I would read that we're still a ways off
    3
  4634. Saw them just last year !
    3
  4635. A nisba form or a nisba adjective
    3
  4636. Necromancer occupational hazard
    3
  4637. I can believe it
    3
  4638. I do my best ;)
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  4639.  @fractalshift  The emanations? To provide the express the final causation of the Divine, nothing more or less. With the exception of the Active Intellect, they are utterly indifferent to us.
    3
  4640. Hurray!
    3
  4641. That isn't an academic distinction
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  4642. That'd be just grand!
    3
  4643. We have such academic sights to show you
    3
  4644. Thanks - that's what the channel aims for!
    3
  4645. Yep, was rocking it at the gym yesterday
    3
  4646. This is wonderful advice!
    3
  4647. It's truly shocking how far and fast it spread, even pre-internet
    3
  4648. Yep, at least among the mutazalites.
    3
  4649. Many thanks - my understanding is that anyone with an Amazon account should be able to order it.
    3
  4650. ^ this
    3
  4651. Your mileage may vary
    3
  4652. Probably by making youtube videos about it....I really have no idea.
    3
  4653. Just guy that makes weird videos for the internet
    3
  4654. Sure - I try to keep my beliefs mostly out of the video but during my livestream I'm happy to put my own positions out there.
    3
  4655. I'm academically but not personally interested.
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  4656. I think so as well!
    3
  4657. Piddy!
    3
  4658. Doing my best - thanks so much for the kind words.
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  4659.  @TormodiR  Thanks for helping me understand! I've often heard of folks that experience temporal lobe epilepsy (I think maybe of Dostoevsky?) also having profound mystical experiences. There is just so much about the world and our varied experiences of it - I am humbled to learn!
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  4660. Seems likely - I mention it in this episode
    3
  4661. I'd say Jesus/Paul
    3
  4662. Happens to us all
    3
  4663. Of course, always here to help. Best of luck and blessings for your studies!
    3
  4664. Glad to help!
    3
  4665. Oh I'm fine with him and "seyn" or whatever not so much his unrepentant opportunistic Nazism
    3
  4666. The Allen translation is solid and his notes prove it
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  4667. Absolutely - I hope these episodes are a great starting off point for people's own research. Hope the recommendation help get started on their on!
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  4668. The creative commons licence version
    3
  4669. I'm on the side of not slaughtering innocent civilians and calling it religion.
    3
  4670. Glad you found the channel - hope you like my content!
    3
  4671. Yep - trying to do both bigger topics and much more introductory stuff as well - hope you stick around!
    3
  4672. Bingo
    3
  4673. Yeah I've kind of been on a bender
    3
  4674. I mean, J'lem is often referred to as the "navel of the world" in the medieval period
    3
  4675. Terrified, why?
    3
  4676. Me? I don't have any evidence or experience with anything I would describe as demonic. But I'm just one person, so - doesn't count for much.
    3
  4677. yep, reaction-formations and dogmatism are usually two sides of the same coin.
    3
  4678. It was the bar kokhba revolution
    3
  4679. Welcome!!
    3
  4680. Nah that's the codex Gigas
    3
  4681. Eh, in one of half a dozen origin stories
    3
  4682. Probably divination - using young children, especially boys, for possession then revelation was common and is even reported into the middle ages. John Dee attempted to use his son Arthur after Edward Kelly briefly ragequit.
    3
  4683. I don't think so for patreon but I always accept one time donations via paypal if that works - thanks so much for your support!
    3
  4684. I'm Jewish and following the teaching of r. Mordecai Kaplan, z"l
    3
  4685. I do. Your mileage may vary
    3
  4686. Nope, this is an academic channel
    3
  4687. If I could do that I wouldn't be on YouTube asking for donations ;)
    3
  4688. Yep, it's insane
    3
  4689. Probably to some degree and yes big controversy over the calendar. The Qumran community apparently used the enochian solar calendar.
    3
  4690. metallic or burnt metallic smell - like after using an angle grinder on cast iron
    3
  4691. 🌈✨
    3
  4692. Megatron
    3
  4693. Thou doeth thou
    3
  4694. Yeah, it can act as a kind of 1st stage booster rocket before the main engine (Divine Illumination) kicks in
    3
  4695. It's the other way around via Phoenician, but you're kind right
    3
  4696. Somewhat, it seems.
    3
  4697. Yeah, has that principle of sufficient reason going for it
    3
  4698. No, not that one but another with the same contents
    3
  4699. Glad you found the content interesting - hope you stick around!
    3
  4700. Quite the contrary I want people to take those lessons from ancient philosophy rather than just make things up and misrepresent exactly that philosophy especially for clicks, clout and money. But you're right, I do have contempt for that kind of behavior.
    3
  4701. That'd make it more sloppy and irresponsible on his part
    3
  4702. Even monkeys fall from trees ;)
    3
  4703. Yep
    3
  4704. Ha, it would be fun to try to translate a movie, like Pulp Fiction, into Enochian.
    3
  4705. Did I suggest they were the same? Why is the Zohar better - the Zohar couldn't exist without the Talmud.
    3
  4706. I've heard that. Great question for Filip over at Let's Talk Religion
    3
  4707. It's an interesting topic! Maybe one day!
    3
  4708. Thanks so much for your support!
    3
  4709. " I am perplexed" ?
    3
  4710. Huh?
    3
  4711. That might be true, but to claim something existed we need evidence - that's profoundly missing in this case.
    3
  4712. Theosophical mythology
    3
  4713. not....not close.
    3
  4714. Hadewijch would certainly win....I mean she actually wrote poetry
    3
  4715. What would you do ? You would represent a fraction of a tiny, marginalized sect.
    3
  4716. Does Mishima talk about his sexuality and Sun and Steel?
    3
  4717. First take, no kidding ;)
    3
  4718. Probably not anytime soon
    3
  4719. Or that there were no Christian texts ever discovered there despite them really wanting them to be
    2
  4720. Yep - that's the plain text of the formalization
    2
  4721. 1 denarius in the early empire was a skilled days wages
    2
  4722. Many congratulations on her winning it! It's my pleasure to be able to put these books into the hands of folks that will love them and be good custodians of them as they travel through time. Enjoy it!
    2
  4723. ecclesiastical circles? no chance.
    2
  4724. Burmese Buddhist Scriptures I think!
    2
  4725. Anat is cvlt
    2
  4726. I'm glad you are finding the content worthwhile - thanks!
    2
  4727. Precheddy
    2
  4728. It's in the comments and the description
    2
  4729. Yeah, that's my other hobby.
    2
  4730. Medieval people didn't really use vellum like that, they used wax tablets.
    2
  4731. The last three are dumpster beliefs, for sure. Blavatsky is mostly (racist) nonsense. Crowley has interesting insights despite himself.
    2
  4732. Throat? I don't think I was feeling poorly - but thanks for the consideration!
    2
  4733. I have a video on zosimos dropping Friday.
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  4734. Noetic just means has informational content. Veridical just means that it corresponds to actual reality. That's all
    2
  4735. Thanks, brother. I'm doing my best and am glad you find the content engaging!
    2
  4736. Teleprompter magic
    2
  4737. No the two words are false friends in English and there is no etymological relationship between them
    2
  4738. That's more of a contemporary matter. Maybe Dr Angela Puca could cover it
    2
  4739. Solid
    2
  4740. I wouldn't say that - many folks find these text deeply inspiring. We just have to be honest about what what we have.
    2
  4741. 💯
    2
  4742. Oh yeah?
    2
  4743. Antonio held the same opinion
    2
  4744. You bet!
    2
  4745. Yes, all hail the gatekeepers!
    2
  4746. Wonderful! Looking forward to your comments. I've heard that Middle-dutch isn't too difficult for modern Dutch readers - is that your experience?
    2
  4747.  @GijsInc  Thanks for this very thoughtful and thorough answer!
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  4748.  @GijsInc  Hope they enjoy it - I did!
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  4749. Not yet.....but soon------ish.
    2
  4750. Crown, you mean.
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  4751. That'd be fun.
    2
  4752. Check out my Israelite demonology episode for the hellel ben shahar
    2
  4753. For money? Nah, pass.
    2
  4754.  @jb8826  nope never heard of it
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  4755.  @jb8826  check out the titles in the description - tons of resources on both sides - plenty to write a solid essay on the topic - good luck !
    2
  4756. Yeah, the algorithm doesn't always put solid scholarship first :(
    2
  4757. Yes. Yes.
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  4758. I don't think so. The Greeks like lots of ancient cultures borrowed the Phoenician system of writing and changed it (added vowels for instance) to use for their language. The names Hermes is attested back in Linear B though the name itself may not be Indo-European. No evidence that I know of that Hermes was originally a Phoenician god.
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  4759. Politeia? Or the Phaedrus?
    2
  4760. Am going to try - hopefully people find it interesting!
    2
  4761. You know - I've never seen them. The bibliographic info is in the Way of Hermes text, if that helps.
    2
  4762. The 'cathars' allegedly did
    2
  4763. It certainly isn't. The energy required for the 'transmutation' costs much more than the gold produced is worth by far and it decomposes rapidly back into a highly radioactive state of bismuth or whathaveyou.
    2
  4764. We don't have a cat
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  4765.  @danterosati  I tend to think of philosophy as being comprised as Metaphysics (which would include Aristotle's project), Logic, Epistemology, aesthetics and ethics. I would include documents like the Instructions within the philosophical domain of ethics. Not metaphysics but still under the purview of philosophy more generally.
    2
  4766. Parmenides was a material monist not a non-dualist
    2
  4767. Like Harvey Keitel?
    2
  4768. 8 year olds dude
    2
  4769. Wolves in the throne room probably
    2
  4770. Yeah, it's get tough there towards the end!
    2
  4771. nah, my buddy tooti
    2
  4772. I ain't got nuttin but loooooove for Kelly ;)
    2
  4773. Except we literally know the Italian family that brought them there.
    2
  4774. They're Japanese puzzle boxes!
    2
  4775. German comment is German
    2
  4776. There's a link to a digital copy in the description - mentioned at the end of the video
    2
  4777. Why "periously" ?
    2
  4778. It's best to start with vol 1 but I'm sure you could get things out of volume ii just by itself
    2
  4779. Mayhaps!
    2
  4780. Yep, I basically think King is correct
    2
  4781. Several
    2
  4782. The emerald tablets of Thoth are made up 20th century nonsense
    2
  4783. Looking forward!
    2
  4784. Thanks for your generous support!
    2
  4785. They lived in a convent and never really interacted with outsiders.
    2
  4786. That was certainly the position of generation ago though it is increasingly unpopular and unsupported by evidence.
    2
  4787. Yep! That's more or less agreed upon
    2
  4788. Such a good game
    2
  4789. Yehoshua ben Levi was born after Jesus - he flourished in the second half of the third century CE.
    2
  4790. Eh, escape is confession
    2
  4791. Thanks, Paul!
    2
  4792. It's all the work of man.
    2
  4793. You mean this one?
    2
  4794. Yes and no. The converso population was disproportionately given over to messianism and that population would never had existed as such without Christian hegemony.
    2
  4795. Hard for me to judge, tbh. But yes, real trauma though I don't think that SV even understood the extent.
    2
  4796. Why not you now?
    2
  4797. Thanks 👍
    2
  4798. or a head for that matter...
    2
  4799. I would go even further. I consider Schopenhauer as more akin to a theologian responding to revelation.
    2
  4800. Can you offer a historical source documenting this ?
    2
  4801. Absolutely - thanks for watching@!
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  4802. Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4803. "medicine"
    2
  4804. Mayhaps
    2
  4805. Yeah, it's beer 🍺
    2
  4806. There's some academic consensus there.
    2
  4807. It seems like you kinda are, thanks for your support!
    2
  4808. Or a dog snoring ;)
    2
  4809.  @quittintime33  from a late classical source ? These documents are in Coptic and some Greek
    2
  4810. Yep
    2
  4811. Not soon but eventually
    2
  4812. Shamir's no mazzik
    2
  4813. Thanks for watching!
    2
  4814. Yeah, the XPs often depict martyrs with the means if their martyrdom - pretty metal
    2
  4815. Wouldn't that be groovy!
    2
  4816. I just do that every night staring into the sunset drinking rye whisky.
    2
  4817. Yeah, that's nonsense. It didn't even exist until centuries after Alexander
    2
  4818. Way, way before those civilizations. Also this god has it's "eyes in it's feet."
    2
  4819. I have lots of videos explaining exactly how many alchemists thought so make sure to check those out!
    2
  4820. old school, you think?
    2
  4821. Hopefully!
    2
  4822. Many thanks for these kind words!
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  4823. I can't say why say why folks find the content interesting but I hope it can be of interest for anyone - from skeptic to occultist alike. Thanks for your support!
    2
  4824. "fairly straightforward manner" Dafuq?
    2
  4825. Lucid is just such an absinthe!
    2
  4826. Thanks for watching!
    2
  4827. Great question!
    2
  4828. The pronomial suffix on the Kuntillet Ajrud pithos inscription
    2
  4829. It's good. I prefer the Eric Purdue, but the Summers is totally fine as well.
    2
  4830. Yep
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  4831. Yeah, the standard model is by no means simple
    2
  4832. The Samuel Shirley edition is the standard in English...and published by Hackett, which is a great publishing house.
    2
  4833. Yep, I literally say that in the episode.
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  4834. Oh, I've read it
    2
  4835. Ancient sacred Enochian word!
    2
  4836. Yep, just down the street from me at the DIA!
    2
  4837. :) for real though....the internet is a messy place.
    2
  4838. Response not continuation
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  4839. Nah, I got kids
    2
  4840. Yes, often
    2
  4841. Yeah that Gaia stuff is just awful nonsense. Thanks for the kind words.
    2
  4842. Not always finding buried treasure - I don't this text mentions it - but, yeah, under the hood of it all, it's not really scary. Honestly, it mostly pious Christianity, with a twist.
    2
  4843. There is no continuous religious tradition of manichaeism down to this day. Though there are reconstructionists.
    2
  4844. I hope so! Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
    2
  4845. Greek, not Latin.
    2
  4846. Appreciate it, friend!
    2
  4847. I have the Zuber text in my queue and it seems very interesting. Is the Prinke text on Polish alchemical texts or does it include more?
    2
  4848. Nah, these are meant to be watched all the way through or not at all
    2
  4849. Typically "ha'arafel" in English transliteration
    2
  4850. What a kind comment - thanks for following the channel and your kind words. Here's to a lovely 2022!
    2
  4851. Thanks and I'm always looking for an excuse to take another look at the Qu'ran!
    2
  4852.  @amenbanur5432  Absolutely - thanks for watching and for your thoughtful comments!
    2
  4853. No idea who you are, so no....not really
    2
  4854. Yep I mentioned that exact point
    2
  4855. At some point
    2
  4856. It does...until you have a deductive argument supporting your position.
    2
  4857. If we had a shred of evidence that you could make that argument. Otherwise it's all speculation. Also, given what we know about the cultural system of the time it's very doubtful.
    2
  4858. 1pm EST today!
    2
  4859. Thanks for watching !
    2
  4860. I have the Menzi and Padeh - it's ok and I think the only reliable one in English.
    2
  4861. I'm glad the channel has a broad appeal - thanks so much for taking the chance on clicking on one of my episodes! Happy New Year!
    2
  4862. In Jewish mythology those aren't angels at all.
    2
  4863. ;) Glad we all have time for a bad joke or two - thanks for watching!
    2
  4864. Probably the grave of the r. Schneerson, z"l, but not to lay upon it, probably to slip written prayers upon it. It's a common practice.
    2
  4865. Right, they are necessary but not sufficient for felicitas in this life
    2
  4866. Yes, phones do strike me as mostly evil
    2
  4867. I felt very seriously it survived into the Middle ages. But I'm sure there are people trying to resurrect it
    2
  4868. Never too late for a chuckle
    2
  4869. You might want to look.....deeper
    2
  4870. Nope all of the above
    2
  4871. Thanks for saying so! Gut shabbes!
    2
  4872. Just happens... constantly
    2
  4873. You should check out the 2008 article which tests for thujone along with other compounds. Great read!
    2
  4874. You'd have to ask him, I'd rather him do an OP recording of the The Discoverie of Witchcraft
    2
  4875. That image is wonderful!
    2
  4876. My fav FF
    2
  4877. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, as they quip goes!
    2
  4878. Gut shabbes!
    2
  4879. The damn truth ;)
    2
  4880. The more I get into proto-kabbalah the more I'm impressed with just how innovative they all were. Really makes the notion that it was all tradition or "received" all the more ironic
    2
  4881. It's an honest to G-d coincidence - this video has been in the hopper for weeks.
    2
  4882. ?
    2
  4883.  @sjuvanet  ah! I'm not opposed to taking sponsors as long as I really think they're good. like Taco Bell, I'd do a Taco Bell ad.
    2
  4884. Totally possible. Though, that would be giving Kelly a lot more credit than I think he deserves. I need to look over the LL tables again and see them with new/old eyes and see if anything pops out. Thanks so much for supporting my work, friend. Means a ton to me!
    2
  4885. Thanks so much!
    2
  4886. Thanks for watching!
    2
  4887. Yep check the comments
    2
  4888. ;) Someone got Esoterica before me and I actually went with esotericachannel for the actual link thingie - but best of luck with your channel!
    2
  4889. Maybe Adam can field this question if he sees it
    2
  4890. Yes. yes.
    2
  4891. Thanks, of course and I'm glad you find the content interesting!
    2
  4892. I'd be happy to buy I don't have the time to do it for free, sadly
    2
  4893. Yeah, big no no
    2
  4894. It was a Jupiter Talisman
    2
  4895. Yep, by a few centuries at least. Super neat person!
    2
  4896. None. Emails and phone calls actually work.
    2
  4897. Which is weird because the order is incorrect in the song
    2
  4898. I'm just happy to be of educational service
    2
  4899. Maybe Esoterica could consult :)
    2
  4900. Nah
    2
  4901. wie es eigentlich gewesen
    2
  4902.  @fractaled3129  Check out those texts, if you have time, and let me know what you think. Also Richard Carrier has a nice short article against the existence of 'gnosticism' - https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/17119. I don't follow Carrier in much else but this seems basically correct to my sights. But yeah, it's an interesting debate but I think the more dig - at least at this point - the less and less we find.
    2
  4903. Addressed in another comment
    2
  4904. There are literally links in the description to all of these books scanned and digitized
    2
  4905. I hope I'm doing some teaching :) but from as an academic it isn't really or me to recommend practical or spiritual teachers from this channel.
    2
  4906. Sure, a few copies of some things. But like I said in the episode, it would take hundreds of copies of every single author and book roll ever mentioned in antiquity to get to some of the numbers mentioned. Even with a few backup copies, the numbers don't make much sense.
    2
  4907. It's not reliable compared to the Newman. Worth getting it via ILL.
    2
  4908. Thanks ! Yeah those brill prices will totally get you!
    2
  4909. It's both, and not just walking in on, there's a sense in the text that he sexually assaulted his father which is all the more horrible.
    2
  4910. Many thanks for the kinds comments! I'm always trying to make myself accessible during livestreams and on as many comments as I can! And yes, more classes to come!
    2
  4911. המבין יבין ;)
    2
  4912. It means something like " if you know, you know"
    2
  4913. I bought it from the Indianapolis Public Library sale on Abebooks for $200 + $5 media mail shipping. I probably refreshed that site once a week for years waiting for a set to come up for sale at a good price.
    2
  4914. I never looked into it but can't be a coincidence, right ?
    2
  4915.  @larrybuzbee7344  who knows? Though he has that great letter condemning Nazism
    2
  4916. Many thanks for your support - glad to have you on Patreon - Writing this week's episode right now!
    2
  4917. Nope, just cite your sources!
    2
  4918.  @wills1087  Thanks! It comes down to three points. (1). It's important to present material that you have expertise in, and until that expands I feel it's my obligation to stick to those fields (2). Very little is know about northern European 'esotericism' prior to the Christian period, e.g. virtually nothing is known about the Druids or their practices. (3). What little is know is covered by experts on other channels, e.g., Jackson Crawford's channel on the Norse religion and myth. Also, a ton of the material I cover was actively suppressed, the different with n. European material is that those societies were largely pre-literate until the conversion period so they simply didn't produce literature that can be studied (or when they did, it was done centuries after conversion as with the Norse) not so much that it was suppressed.
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  4919.  @wills1087  I cover the MSS in my episode on it and you can track them from the recent Hariri translation.
    2
  4920. I've done a whole episode on it
    2
  4921. https://youtu.be/1CaLMJgYVuk?si=5gTaIKUcDtCJ3gVL
    2
  4922. Search before asking :)
    2
  4923. There isn't much academic work on the text so far as I can tell. Though a new addition of at least part of it is coming out soon, recently discovered. But yes this would be an excellent topic for a academic dissertation.
    2
  4924. yeah, that sounds scary.
    2
  4925. There are several Latin MSS but I don't think a specific critical edition of just the Latin MSS.
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  4926. Many thanks - Hope you enjoyed the episode and thanks for the kind words!
    2
  4927. The Hermetica was written in Greek. Though a fragmentary book of Thoth can still be read in Demotic.
    2
  4928. The Voynich is 100 years older than Dee's date of birth, so there's no way he or Kelly had anything to do with its composition. Also the Turkish work isn't taken seriously by cryptologists.
    2
  4929. Kabbalah is rabbinic, the Talmud is the cornerstone of rabbinic literature. Why is it a non-starter for you?
    2
  4930. Lots of people study the Talmud who aren't Jewish, it's an amazing text.
    2
  4931. Kinda did but will do more at some point
    2
  4932. That's great but I can't imagine a text that huge being very handy. Still, it's great that it is available online!
    2
  4933. Sure enough - and no one's perfect, I suppose!
    2
  4934.  @jdewit8148  Thanks goodness, I'm on team #heatdeath
    2
  4935. An absinthe auto-verser
    2
  4936. It wasn't
    2
  4937. That Shakespeare and Francis Bacon stuff strikes me as pareidolia run wild.
    2
  4938. They basically print and price for institutions especially university libraries.
    2
  4939. nah.
    2
  4940. Or a dog snoring - check the other comments
    2
  4941. Spooky dog snoring!
    2
  4942. Not very interested in Jung, I'm a Lacanian. Mckenna is interesting, but I'm more interested in pre-19th century esoterica personally.
    2
  4943. Glad to hear it - hope you stick around!
    2
  4944. Their interior states weren't shaped by it, only the "externals"
    2
  4945. Probably not.
    2
  4946. The text itself calls this soteriology "to become fully human" so I'd go with that
    2
  4947. how did I miss this.... genius comment
    2
  4948. You checked archive.org?
    2
  4949. Yep, glad to have more southerners interested in esotericism!
    2
  4950. Yeah interesting like a car wreck
    2
  4951. Many thanks!
    2
  4952. Very cool, V! You have any favorite in terms of translating?
    2
  4953. Life is pretty good - glad the semester is over so I can do some more hubby stuff. Need to study for another amateur radio exam, calligraphy, prep new d&d stuff, etc - you? Things looking up?
    2
  4954. Watch on...
    2
  4955. "manifesting" is new-age non-sense.
    2
  4956. Thanks friend! There's always Federici's book :)
    2
  4957. Because that's kinda where the runes came from ;)
    2
  4958. Nice suggestion. The literature uses 'religionist' hence me using but I also find it a clumsy and somewhat biased term.
    2
  4959. ;) Hope you like the content!
    2
  4960. Toranto ;)
    2
  4961. Yep!
    2
  4962. Thanks friend!
    2
  4963. He's just as often called "8 times great" as well, though
    2
  4964. Thanks for this kind donation!
    2
  4965. I nearly always have a recommended readings which is basically a works cited. This episode is basically novel research. Eh, maybe I'll circle back and do one but probably not.
    2
  4966. Don't exist yet
    2
  4967.  @jonathanbulkheed338  Regular universities - the folks that wrote these books are specialists in Coptic and Egyptian Christianity.
    2
  4968. Yeah, I thought it was kinda forced but that's what came to mind when I reading Spare.
    2
  4969. nope
    2
  4970. Solid
    2
  4971. No, I don't think so
    2
  4972. Yes
    2
  4973. Ditto tallis katan, Jewish magic underwear
    2
  4974. I provide isbns, you have to do the rest.
    2
  4975. It depended on the alchemist but nearly all agreed that astrological influence played a role in metallic production both by nature and by art.
    2
  4976. The magical practices antiquity were just never the folk practices of Europeans
    2
  4977. It's a fun text though even that edition doesn't translate the whole text
    2
  4978. This -^ Most people interested in alchemy - especially 'spiritual alchemy' just don't have much in the way of basic chemistry to understand what the historical alchemists were up to. Or, for reasons totally beyond me, just refuse to think about alchemy as proto-chemistry as if chemistry as we know it just jumped into existed in the late 17th century.
    2
  4979. Not yet - need to
    2
  4980. You think so? I don't get the 'r' sound really in the Coptic pronunciation of 'Jesus'
    2
  4981. Thanks for watching and sharing! Should have another one out this Friday!
    2
  4982. Yep, sure is!
    2
  4983. Thanks so much for saying so!
    2
  4984. I mean, it's literally on Sefaria - https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud
    2
  4985. Would be so cool to have you!
    2
  4986. Doing great - hope you are well! I think it's going to be a pretty diverse crew but happy to chat with you more about it if you have any questions!
    2
  4987. Yep, most people don't. Even John Dee fans.
    2
  4988. No everything we know about them is from that one essay of Philo
    2
  4989. Thanks for saying so - I'll doing do that translation episode sometime this summer, look for it!
    2
  4990. "imperfect but solid" is about as good as it gets probably
    2
  4991. I suppose one could do that - they seem to make sense to me reading them forwards. Now, just because they make sense doesn't make them effective, but still.
    2
  4992. He didn't - it was published without his permission and in a rather corrupt form.
    2
  4993. Yep, I cover that in my other episode.
    2
  4994.  @jelkel25  Thanks! Coffee or whiskey, your mileage may vary.
    2
  4995. :) thanks so much - happy new year!
    2
  4996. Yep, mentioned in the description.
    2
  4997. Yep, hence me emphasizing the "influential" part ;)
    2
  4998. Nah they were base 10
    2
  4999. Phenomenology, meh
    2
  5000. Thanks - tell everyone at the HHP I send my best regards!
    2
  5001. I don't think so - links to the book in the description though
    2
  5002. Definitely planning on it.
    2
  5003. It's a nice party trick. Like making plasma with a grape in a microwave.
    2
  5004. Yeah, this damn corono. Hope the semester is going well just the same!
    2
  5005. It's not clear who compiled it, probably in the iamblichus circle though
    2
  5006. Nope, but there may be one in the future year. It's one of the things I'm considering.
    2
  5007. You'd be best to read some David Harvey to get a sense of how Marx employ the labor theory of value, or Mandel against marginalism.
    2
  5008. I'm not helping mine either, friend!
    2
  5009. Though how one would sort the microforms is a mystery to me.
    2
  5010. Yeah, seems like nonsense to me. But thanks !
    2
  5011. You know, I would say that Gnosticism, at least Valentinian Christianity is a Pauline Christianity, certainly the Valentinians thought it was, although an unusual one compared to the 'orthodoxy' that prevailed. What's interesting to me is just how much variety there was in Christian mythology in the 2nd century.
    2
  5012. Soon - Next few weeks!
    2
  5013. I liked it just fine.
    2
  5014. Thanks Helen hope you and your family are well too - thanks for your comments
    2
  5015. On my faq!
    2
  5016. Did I say these were mystical texts?
    2
  5017. Not at this point. The Emerald Tablets (which I have a recent episode on) weren't written by Thoth (they might be late-Hellenistic Egyptian), and Atlantis wasn't real. This text, is however, interesting, as part of the New Age movement.
    2
  5018. I really need to pioneer the fueldtif philistine erotica
    2
  5019. Billions of people pray for things. That doesn't work either and it's lasted for eons.
    2
  5020. Sure, the con argument was precisely the official position of the church since Augustine.
    2
  5021. Got several videos about that film
    2
  5022. There's debate - historically the position was that the ch was wholly Greek with mere Egyptian window dressing. Fowden has shown otherwise.
    2
  5023. Yep, eventually
    2
  5024. Hell is infinite not eternal. It also is mythology.
    2
  5025. Pass
    2
  5026. Episode on her too - but very little of her theories survive in tact
    2
  5027. That's a good idea - maybe I will do that! Thanks!
    2
  5028. Thanks so much for the kind words and the support! Means a ton to me!
    2
  5029. You should be super proud of any and all process you make - never a discount your learning, every bit matters and I'm certainly proud for you.
    2
  5030. Sure, just make sure to email or call ahead to make an appointment - rabbis are often very busy.
    2
  5031. I do and am called "country" for it
    2
  5032. eikôta muthon
    2
  5033. It's not translated and even finding it in Hebrew is challenging
    2
  5034. It's only found, to my knowledge, in an appendix to the Hebrew edition of scholem's book on shabbetai zvi - I have it but even finding a pdf is tough
    2
  5035. I don't think so
    2
  5036. Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
    2
  5037. virtually none.
    2
  5038. All the holidays!
    2
  5039. Sure, you can reach me via my website with love like links through the about page on yt
    2
  5040. I'm a fan of the noab - new Oxford annotated Bible
    2
  5041. It's not an academic edition of the Bible, so no.
    2
  5042. Or that transformers sound like metatron
    2
  5043. That's really depressing to learn
    2
  5044. Yep, I do know him - great guy !
    2
  5045. The veda's aren't the first, though one of the oldest still used. The oldest known religious text is the kesh hymn.
    2
  5046. Yep, his maggid was the Mishnah....weirdly.
    2
  5047. Thanks!
    2
  5048. Warby parker something
    2
  5049. Yep, the Israelites worshipped a range of gods including yahweh
    2
  5050. I thought about breaking it up but series always perform poorly and these inquisition episodes just perform poorly in general. It's important history and that's why I make them, regardless of performance. But this thing was a beast.
    2
  5051. The Eric Purdue
    2
  5052. Check out the FAQ on my website
    2
  5053. Thanks so much!
    2
  5054. Mayhaps!
    2
  5055. He wasn't from Cologne originally but from the small village of Nettesheim and of minor gentry stock. So no, probably not.
    2
  5056. ^ life goals
    2
  5057. You know that asking respectful questions might get you more answers than just expressing exasperation.
    2
  5058. Nah lots of other channels have covered it
    2
  5059. t HOT h
    2
  5060. Nope, not straight forward at all. But, I hope I can continue to make solid content and at least folks will have access to it here!
    2
  5061. He was something of an amateur void starer into
    2
  5062. Not anti-life but anti - what they perceive as the false life
    2
  5063. Many thanks!
    2
  5064. I can't think of any religion with state power doing much better or worse
    2
  5065. Both are just myths
    2
  5066. A patron had already made an amazing one - link in the description!
    2
  5067. Not yet but eventually
    2
  5068. Nope, not yet but high on the list
    2
  5069. Aside from the last year of his life there is basically no reliable historical information about Jesus
    2
  5070. Who doesn't want to be a wizard?
    2
  5071. That's what the text says. But any of it makes any sense isn't up to me
    2
  5072. Yeah ramping up for spooky season
    2
  5073. Mh is from 1564 but Dee developed it earlier but yes both are connected to mercury
    2
  5074. Nah, haven't really had the time to play anything like that in years
    2
  5075. He was a super rich doctor definitely no thief
    2
  5076. Yep she's an important resource
    2
  5077. I think you are probably correct or something like it.
    2
  5078. Thanks!
    2
  5079. yep
    2
  5080. I have the same mic the whole time
    2
  5081. Scholars generally think that John was an apocalyptic Jewish preacher
    2
  5082. Just from the gospels the only records about John
    2
  5083. Eh, they are defenseless against libgen, etc
    2
  5084. Of course the text is male centric and misogynist
    2
  5085. That's a great site and yes, we are lucky that so much survives. We just need to get the curriculum to start including this stuff!
    2
  5086. Yep, contact Aubrey for pricing, details etc
    2
  5087. Neat - one could do a fun tour of abandoned Crowley places around Europe.
    2
  5088. Brill books
    2
  5089. Great - glad the content is engaging and useful!
    2
  5090. You'll need to look up irenaeus if you want more specific details - all these groups are dealt with there....for better and for worse
    2
  5091. You can believe what you like but the original legends don't support that.
    2
  5092. It's really just grad school mostly
    2
  5093. I have no idea what that is.
    2
  5094. Who does the first initiation?
    2
  5095. I don't think so. They're complex but with resources and planning they are quite doable it seems to me
    2
  5096. Thanks - hope you stick around!
    2
  5097. Yes
    2
  5098. It's a curious question - I have no idea honestly. Those dog-headed people are just wonderful!
    2
  5099. Yep, though I'm more convinced by the technical, material history arguments I laid out here. For whatever reason, they aren't so much focused upon.
    2
  5100. Ha! Didn't stop me from pouring that first class :) Sic transit gloria mundi as they say.
    2
  5101. With the exception of sefer yetzirah which is late classical, kabbalah is fully medieval
    2
  5102. Yep, the Dehn one
    2
  5103. Evidence?
    2
  5104. Hope it's helpful!
    2
  5105.  @Babylon2060  No idea
    2
  5106. The Kybalion is an example of early 20th century "New Thought" and doesn't so much connect with the historical Corpus Hermeticum. Of course, that doesn't make it any more or less true. I would suggest reading both and seeing which one you find more convincing in terms of clarity, argumentation, application in your life, etc.
    2
  5107. Jewish and religious, of a sort
    2
  5108. In the west, it's an essentially 19th century concept from theosophy but does have ancient predecessors, the "vehicle" of neo-platonic philosophy, hermeticism, funerary journeys and astral ascent literature, etc.
    2
  5109. Probably not - not in the channels time period really
    2
  5110. Thanks!
    2
  5111. I suspect these were two totally distinct magical technologies that only began to be fused in the late Middle ages
    2
  5112. It's not controversial - it's a well known forgery.
    2
  5113. Mazel tov !
    2
  5114. Yep
    2
  5115.  @AlizzaBliss  nope, not yet!
    2
  5116. Great question - I'll be making a video on the Summa Perfectionis in the coming weeks!
    2
  5117. nah - they aren't etymologically connected
    2
  5118. Yes
    2
  5119. I did - both of them.
    2
  5120. Mississippi
    2
  5121. Guess what group wrote these texts?
    2
  5122. Long live NOLA!
    2
  5123. Nope
    2
  5124. #allthebest
    2
  5125. dog snoring
    2
  5126. You can always contact me via my website - thanks for watching!
    2
  5127. Thanks! Hope you are finding the content worthwhile!
    2
  5128. Thanks and welcome aboard!
    2
  5129. I imagine he would have had some degree of Hebrew and Greek but I doubt he was literate.
    2
  5130. Thanks, brother!
    2
  5131. 1478
    2
  5132. Of course !
    2
  5133. You're telling me
    2
  5134. I mean it's called the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Weyer himself was a skeptic on a wide range of similar issues (including the existence of witchcraft) especially all the necromancy of his day - he thought it was nonsense and uses this list as evidence of how silly it was. The writer of the goetia clearly didn't get the memo.
    2
  5135. Thanks so much for your support and kind words!
    2
  5136. Yep
    2
  5137. Yep I will probably get to it!
    2
  5138. ;) it's a pretty tough text to best honesty - but worth giving it a crack !
    2
  5139. Yep, every season or so I have a small catalog of antiquarian occult books. Will be releasing it shortly
    2
  5140. I do. For free
    2
  5141. Nah
    2
  5142. Great film - I'll probably do a review of it on the channel at some point.
    2
  5143. Because that's not an academic convention
    2
  5144. No, as I said in the video luckily I don't suffer from depression or anxiety, etc.
    2
  5145. Just leave a link to the channel and post away - thanks for your kind words and shavuah tov
    2
  5146. Knew what?
    2
  5147.  @bruceplenderleith838  yep - read first, believe later
    2
  5148. Sabaoth I think
    2
  5149. Depends on what Zohar text you want to focus on.
    2
  5150. Yeah, that's another can of worms
    2
  5151. Every single day
    2
  5152. I will - thanks!
    2
  5153. example?
    2
  5154. Or the slow death of my camera
    2
  5155. Of course, I have my own biases - I just hope to check them as far as I can. But, I really hope to cover this material as honestly and non-partisan as I can. History deserves that.
    2
  5156. Still to come and thanks!
    2
  5157. Brentano entered the chat
    2
  5158. Kinda up your alley - hope you're well !
    2
  5159. Thanks! You can always reach me here or via my website!
    2
  5160.  @London-Lad  Maybe when I get some more time....maybe
    2
  5161. I should do that at some point!
    2
  5162. Take a look at my book of tooth episode
    2
  5163. Thanks for this kind donation!
    2
  5164. Way better than the one I have -> 🏅
    2
  5165. Link to the text in the description!
    2
  5166. Thanks for your support - it's deeply appreciated!
    2
  5167. Depends on the kabbalist you ask.
    2
  5168. the elephant dude?
    2
  5169. I need to figure out the time to restart my D&D group!
    2
  5170. Just some trinitite and uranium ore
    2
  5171. War band
    2
  5172. Thanks for this kind comment
    2
  5173. Being dogmatic about this stuff seems like a sure recipe for insanity. Thanks for the kind words and watching!
    2
  5174. I would say so, literacy is a central aspect of rabbinical life
    2
  5175. Bit smaller. I tend to think of Hermeticism as soteriologically informed though generally watered-down, philosophically speaking, middle-platonism.
    2
  5176. you shouldn't
    2
  5177. ...and I'm not a rabbi
    2
  5178. huh?
    2
  5179. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    2
  5180. Yes, please
    2
  5181. What do you mean?
    2
  5182. One can only hope ;)
    2
  5183. That's odd - maybe it's a regional thing ?
    2
  5184. You're not a lowly anything - thank you for what you do.
    2
  5185. I don't have any melancholy but I also doubt that it would if I did
    2
  5186. That's basically just Zosimus and maybe the ismailiis to a lesser degree
    2
  5187. Nah that's a different person
    2
  5188. Just the latin
    2
  5189. That's what Idel says too
    2
  5190. I'm a NOAB fan, personally.
    2
  5191. Maybe at some point - especially an episode on the Moreh as an esoteric text would be interesting!
    2
  5192. You don't learn about this discovery in school in Greece? That's really a pity!
    2
  5193. Answered in an earlier comment!
    2
  5194. It's pretty podcast-able, but make sure to check the images especially in the second half!
    2
  5195. Who knows?
    2
  5196. It was def the dougie
    2
  5197. In that cultural context people didn't really have last names. Usually just "son of X" or "Daughter of X" or where you were from, like her.
    2
  5198. The Parmenides is like a mental labyrinth
    2
  5199. Yep, been invisible ever since
    2
  5200. yep, sometimes.
    2
  5201. They got this kind called reading for yourself
    2
  5202. Yep
    2
  5203. Nope, no genizah.
    2
  5204. Davies discusses in his grimoires book.
    2
  5205. It's eternally there
    2
  5206. Cletus
    2
  5207. That's how he can see his maw from up there
    2
  5208. n o p e
    2
  5209. You may want to check that - the Wiesbaden Codex survived the war.
    2
  5210. Huh? Selling out?
    2
  5211. This week's video touches on it as well. But yeah, could be a whole episode!
    2
  5212. They had primitive vent hoods on a lot of cases
    2
  5213. For greco-egyptian magic, it's basically the only one
    2
  5214. Thanks! I would recommend the Jade line of absinthes by my friend Ted Breaux. You can also buy nice samples of absinthe for tastings - https://www.absinthes.com/search?sSearch=rueverte+explore Have fun with the tasting!
    2
  5215. skeetate, skeetate, skeetate
    2
  5216. Prexactly
    2
  5217. Yeah, it's nonsense
    2
  5218. Paleojudaica Jim davila
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  5219. Coming next week!
    2
  5220. This was a fun one!
    2
  5221. Nope, as many or as few as you like!
    2
  5222. I read some ancient languages that used cuneiform as their script but yep, Syrian and Persia stuff is so interesting!
    2
  5223. Luckily I don't get many if those and thanks !
    2
  5224. Diachronic analysis of Descartes' concept of "substantia." Not really as fun as mystical dreams but still worthwhile philosophy, I think. Thanks for asking!
    2
  5225. Andy would be a great Andrew Jackson Davis. Sydney Sweeney as Cora Hatch
    2
  5226. May she drives away all evil ghosts!
    2
  5227. Thanks for watching !
    2
  5228. Worth working through even with not-so-great translations!
    2
  5229. Yeah he doesn't get much coverage sadly
    2
  5230. Hadewijch
    2
  5231. The account at Zohar ii34a makes it appear primeval. In fact idel has a whole book on this stratum of kabbalistic speculation that takes evil to be coeternal with the g-dhead - fascinating stuff
    2
  5232. my man with the WITTR reference :)
    2
  5233. ditto - blackbraid has been my recent cvlt jam
    2
  5234. Sorry to hear that you can always return it for a full refund. Just contact me via my website if you need any help! And thanks for the support
    2
  5235. Good luck with your program!
    2
  5236. I trust all of it about as far as I can throw it.
    2
  5237. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  5238. I've never been to Vegas
    2
  5239. Not any time soon - let's talk religion just did a great video on him, however
    2
  5240. Thanks, just made it yesterday!
    2
  5241. Yep there's a whole later bowl tradition into Islam
    2
  5242. Some uranium and trinitite fragments
    2
  5243. True story
    2
  5244. Definitely not anything like pure intellect, advanced degrees and read a lot of books. That's all, virtually anyone can do it just takes work.
    2
  5245. I don't get why this answer keeps popping up. As someone else pointed out, Merlin is fictional and not Medieval.
    2
  5246. I doubt that. It's just an interesting answer I didn't expect to pop up so much.
    2
  5247. verily, but other manuals, like Disquisitionum magicarum also made a huge impact and no one really talks about them.
    2
  5248. Would need more hours in the day! But would love to work with DnD folks!
    2
  5249. It's a 18th century scarificator.
    2
  5250. It is precisely that lurianic Kabbalah deepened orthodoxy that it was accepted.
    2
  5251. Sounds familiar...
    2
  5252. Depends on what you mean by 'legitimate'
    2
  5253.  @Quantum-Omega  ok
    2
  5254. It will certainly contain wormwood, ie Artemisia absinthium. Otherwise it just isn't absinthe.
    2
  5255. I only do Ads on the start and ends, I hate mid-roll ads and so I don't include them.
    2
  5256. This theory isn't accepted by most scholars
    2
  5257. Oh might be borrowed but got the ad&d one
    2
  5258. I think someone would be giving it to you around that time ;)
    2
  5259. On the store tab!
    2
  5260. Egyptian mythology is like shuffling cards
    2
  5261. Pass
    2
  5262.  @elijahturner4220  yep, not much but not none. I'm sure I'll get to fortune at some point - she's super important!
    2
  5263. "Logically Irrefutable" - they are definitely refutable. Just formalizing the argument shows it to be unsound.
    2
  5264. The formalization is literally in the video - did you not actually watch it?
    2
  5265. You don't need to show a counter-argument. You just how to show a failure of validity and/or soundness. The argument appears valid but is not sound. Further, is suffers modal collapse, which is a further issue.
    2
  5266. Yes
    2
  5267. Nah, the "Classics of Western Spirituality" version is great. Matt does a fine job with the text. I just wish the end notes - which are necessary - were footnotes instead. But I think that about all books.
    2
  5268. I have a longish episode on philosophy and mysticism that would be best in that respect
    2
  5269. Gonzo gospel
    2
  5270. I'm not immediately aware of anything but it's among my all time favorites
    2
  5271. See comment below
    2
  5272. They do great work - would be wonderful to work together
    2
  5273. Yeah, axe grinding is good for axes and not for much else.
    2
  5274.  @Lk-km4ie  yep, at some point.
    2
  5275.  @andrewmendez299  Yep it's better than not. I have it myself. The best critical edition is now the French which is a also a great text. Unfortunately, most Americans don't really do languages other than English so it is off limits to them. Though, the Greek of the CH isn't that tough if you had a couple of semesters of classical Greek. Thanks for watching, friend and thanks for your thoughtful comments!
    2
  5276. No, I don't have any knowledge of the topic
    2
  5277. Most of those concepts didn't exist for historical mystics and that they don't come to conclusions that we agree with isn't in the least evidence for their being deceptive.
    2
  5278. Expecting people to transcend their historical horizon is an unreasonable expectation and as I mention in this episode an epistemological, rather than value theoretical criticism of them. Which values are correct - and in no pre-modern mythology that I know does a divinity have 18th century liberal values - is a matter of debate in value theory not epistemology. It's just as likely that God(s) are any given value theory depending on how you solve the euthyphro dilemma.
    2
  5279. Egon Spengler, z"l
    2
  5280. The original pronunciation of בַּעַל didn't really sound like English "bull"
    2
  5281. Already did it ! ;)
    2
  5282. I'd say
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  5283. sometime in '23
    2
  5284. I might have one for sale soon
    2
  5285. Remodeling
    2
  5286. The feeling is mutual! Hope you are well - let's catch up soon!
    2
  5287. Though, it seems clear that Dee was, at least, somewhat influenced by the Ars Almadel which would become part of the Lesser Key. Glad you have stuck around and I hope the channel keeps growing!
    2
  5288. I really think it's the whole absinthe 'experience' - the ritual, art, history, aroma, etc.
    2
  5289. Take a look at my 3 Enoch video for a link to the Hebrew. I'm not aware of any menukad edition
    2
  5290. There is every reason to doubt that inscription
    2
  5291. That they haven't subjected their "findings" in a peer reviewed archaeological journal or a recognized western semitic epigrapher like Rollston. Barring that I won't be trusting these people in the least.
    2
  5292. It's so popular it isn't esoteric
    2
  5293. Or a great video game !
    2
  5294. I don't think you want to live down there, there's just a scary boiler, washing machine and home brewing stuff.
    2
  5295. I ain't sayin....but sometimes nazis do hide behind things.
    2
  5296. with their power combined, you have the mighty sazerac
    2
  5297. No, the son of light in the dss texts were the sectarians
    2
  5298. I would love to have other subtitles - I think I would just have to have help from folks with those languages to make them. Thanks for the advice!
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  5299.  @lelalelui5683  Absolutely - I am more than happy to add subtitles and obviously give anyone that helps all the credit!
    2
  5300. I've always heard it's because he was the first to provide a "bird's eye view" of the entire body of Halakha (Jewish Law).
    2
  5301. Yep, going to do something on so-called Demonological literature soon actually!
    2
  5302. Thanks for this kind comment
    2
  5303. I'm in Detroit, MI and thanks so much for the support of the channel! Hope you find my content interesting!
    2
  5304. Yep
    2
  5305. Thanks Zevi - really. Good purim?
    2
  5306. First is tragedy then as farce
    2
  5307. Check out America's Prospero
    2
  5308. Hi Pam - thanks for your comment. I'm just trying to be honest as I come to new conclusions!
    2
  5309. Definitely I think - permanent exteriorization of language is pretty magical
    2
  5310. Nope
    2
  5311. Yep, installed sprinkler systems!
    2
  5312. He does and I do - thanks brother!
    2
  5313. Historical sources? Also there was "France" at this time precisely as attested by the albegensian crusade itself
    2
  5314. Sure via my website!
    2
  5315. Ha!
    2
  5316. I'm super grateful you share my stuff, it means a ton to me!
    2
  5317. Jk I love stoicism - nothing beats a strong assent to a kataleptic impression !
    2
  5318. Henadspeed
    2
  5319. Sure, it's history if nothing else.
    2
  5320. Gibbler es eternal
    2
  5321. Thank you so much 🙂
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  5322. It's great and zevi from seekers of unity has already done an excellent episode on it check it out
    2
  5323. Just try to keep myself on my toes...or some similar metaphor!
    2
  5324. Consolatum peccatorum
    2
  5325. hypostases not hypothesis
    2
  5326. It's an interesting observation though it appears that these ideas actually originate within Judaism itself!
    2
  5327. Thanks Paul! Hope you are well, friend!
    2
  5328. I'm glad - you deserve to feel joy !
    2
  5329. It's dark times out there and even just a kind YT comment can matter. Hope you're holding up ok, V.
    2
  5330. I believe there was a historical Jesus. I don't think he was a prophet, son of god, or messiah.
    2
  5331. His argument was more forceful, it would inevitably lead you in that direction
    2
  5332. Man, I wish I were a hologram.
    2
  5333. CLM849 - published as Forbidden Rites
    2
  5334. Yep Spinoza is tough going for sure
    2
  5335. Mentioned at length in another episode
    2
  5336. Good question - topic for a future episode. Solomonic paraphernalia!
    2
  5337. Awesome - please do ! Thanks for watching!
    2
  5338. That definitely shouldn't be your first gnosticism read - take at look at this list first
    2
  5339. She's so worth reading - I think you'll find her works amazing.
    2
  5340.  @danielwise7678  ILL is your friend, here.
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  5341.  @danielwise7678  The esoteric secrets of Inter-Library Loan! You can probably get it via the library through ILL - that's how I got it!
    2
  5342. Yep, I included some of the documents about them in the episode - it was an important episode for me to make !
    2
  5343. Yes, what else?
    2
  5344. Verily
    2
  5345. Yes and they did serially kill but not on purpose
    2
  5346. And complex - violently pro-crusades, for instance
    2
  5347. Still going through internal grievance procedures. Should be a major update tomorrow.
    2
  5348. Lots of translate them, but yep!
    2
  5349. It's not really connected much to actual texts, so I'm not so much impressed. Nearly all the literature about the Klippot remain in Hebrew and Aramaic and without those sources people talking about them are just making stuff up.
    2
  5350. They become one kind of Shedim, the goat kind.
    2
  5351. Probably that and the ring of gyges in the republic
    2
  5352. And I think that version is pretty flawed and a lot of ways, especially the historical arguments around its authorship. Though, again, I don't want to be seen as throwing water on anyone's spiritual practice.
    2
  5353. It is unique as a book but lots of text forgeries existed back then. I'm honestly surprised more don't survive
    2
  5354. No full episode this week - been traveling, etc. But next week !
    2
  5355. No, that suggestion has been rejected by scholars
    2
  5356. Nah, Religion for Breakfast and Let's Talk Religion have great episodes re
    2
  5357. https://www.maisonabsinthe.com/silver-plated-balancier-see-saw-single-server-dripper/
    2
  5358. No the witch /poisoner issue goes all the way back to the translation of the Septuagint
    2
  5359. No reprint but you can find both a translation and scans of the 1505 online
    2
  5360. No pictures but reading and pooping go together like peanut butter and chocolate
    2
  5361. Thanks, friend!
    2
  5362. Many thanks!
    2
  5363. Not in at least a couple of millenia
    2
  5364. I don't really believe in gods, ghosts or demons so I'm probably not the right person to ask
    2
  5365.  @tetrahedron1000  I don't think there is compelling evidence for the Exodus narrative as found in the Hebrew Bible or for the character of Moses. It's possible that the story has a tiny kernel of truth but its impossible to reconstruct at this point.
    2
  5366. They both generate 'children' but can't bear, give birth, nurse etc., They'll never be traditional mothers and this enrages them
    2
  5367. Yep, of some of the Italian period stuff
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  5368.  @Herm-Anubis  maybe, but we don't do conspiracy "theories" here of any kind
    2
  5369. The book I showed on the screen when I said that
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  5370.  @thedude4922  They must have had enough proof for themselves. I mean billions of people pray everyday and I'm fairly confident the success rate is about the same as magic. Yet, religion keeps on keeping on.
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  5371.  @thedude4922  Great - welcome aboard!
    2
  5372. Sex is fine in Abramelin, Sar Torah rejects any sexual activity and any seminal contact / emission botches the process. For Sar Torah it's both and including a sharp observation of niddah, taharas HaMishpacha, etc
    2
  5373. I don't think Murray discusses it in Witch Cult
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  5374. Nah
    2
  5375. That one is a double doozy
    2
  5376. You want to summon a demon that murders children? I suppose you should seek professional psychological help.
    2
  5377. I feel the same way but I don't have the least musical talent.
    2
  5378. Sadly
    2
  5379. In some cases you're shockingly right.
    2
  5380. Sadly there is no reliable contemporary edition.
    2
  5381. It's probably a reprint of the early modern translation, which is both hard to read and not terribly reliable. I suppose it's better than nothing, though.
    2
  5382. Yep, the three books on life is reliable
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  5383. They're not part of the mythology that's terribly meaningful to me unlike my own mythology so it basically has no impact
    2
  5384. della porta
    2
  5385. They're linked in Kabbalah
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  5386.  @matthewwilliams4065  glad I'm able to help!
    2
  5387. But he wielded the superior Port-Royal Logic
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  5388. Thanks - it's odd that it's not more widely known.
    2
  5389.  @ChienandKun  could be, but the four world stuff doesn't appear until the Zohar in the 13th century
    2
  5390. You mean a direct inspiration from a misunderstanding of philistine mythology? Dagon was an agricultural God not a fish one, i.e., no connection to the Hebrew דג
    2
  5391. That's basically the subtext of every episode I do on magic
    2
  5392. Yep, that's the old theory - most folks nowadays dispute it
    2
  5393.  @pymander12  :) It begins!
    2
  5394. Mostly auctions, sometimes private dealers and collectors.
    2
  5395. Thanks, friend!
    2
  5396. Thanks!
    2
  5397. Coming next week! But already available for Patreon subscribers
    2
  5398. Thanks, Friend!
    2
  5399. Yeah, that stuff is depressing
    2
  5400. That's how books in Hebrew are shelved;)
    2
  5401. Maybe!
    2
  5402. Did I forget him?
    2
  5403. Why would you comment on a video you haven't watched?
    2
  5404. Honestly, I'm pretty skeptical of them term and try to use it very carefully.
    2
  5405. Flaming? Thanks for the kind words!
    2
  5406. Like I said, that might be but someone will have to provide a formal deduction to actually prove that before anyone should take it seriously. As early as Aristotle there had been clearly established middle grounds between pure being in se and non-being. And that's not to mention full-blown modal collapse that Parmenides commits himself to.
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  5407.  @huckfinn257  I mean anyone hearing about it being found at a " Anshe Korach" would immediately know a joke was afoot
    2
  5408.  @huckfinn257  anyone with solid Torah education;) where did he comment on it?
    2
  5409. I do!
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  5410. Yeah, kinda. Though, lots of traditions have these kinds of "checkpoints in the afterlife."
    2
  5411. Like the modern self-help stuff? I'm not even sure I believe in selves.
    2
  5412. On the shelf or the logo itself?
    2
  5413. Yep, channel is called Esoterica for a reason.
    2
  5414. Probably not any time soon. Dr. Puca has an episode on the topic
    2
  5415. And those blokes that stole it and took it to a pub that one time
    2
  5416. Eventually! Though Arabic alchemical texts are still only now getting published and I don't really read Arabic well enough to read them in the original
    2
  5417. No, sadly. Hence us doing it
    2
  5418. Yes, yes they are
    2
  5419. They were fine with it - there's a long tradition of such language. It's not edgey or anything.
    2
  5420. précis
    2
  5421. Faith-based or dogma driven claims
    2
  5422. Probably not, the Vatican is surprisingly open with their holdings.
    2
  5423. Maybe !
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  5424. I have all the 'scripts' for the episodes if folks ever want them. As for translation, anyone willing to do that work is absolutely welcome to do it. Hope you are well and nice to hear from you!
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  5425. This information isn't buried. It's just in books that people don't read or don't have access to.
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  5426.  @ipos9542  It appears so - though, it's funny, I've never actually had a birth chart made up. Who knows what it holds!?
    2
  5427. Featuring (an unfortunately malevolent) depiction of Bernard gui!
    2
  5428. Oh yeah
    2
  5429. huh?
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  5430. Interesting maybe but that didn't happen
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  5431. I would but I just don't have the capacity to moderate it. Maybe a fan one could be started or something?
    2
  5432. Whoops - look what me focusing on how Premiere butchers Hebrew led to
    2
  5433. Because I'm religious
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  5434.  @wolf-bearchief3705  like I said, always happy to appear on other content that's on the up and up!
    2
  5435. Glad you liked it - Such a neat text!
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  5436. Probably not
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  5437. Necromantrix
    2
  5438. They grow on you
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  5439. Yes actually at Principe's presentation this summer!
    2
  5440. Many, many thanks!
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  5441. Thanks!
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  5442. Nope I don't believe that
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  5443. Thanks - Yep the texts I recommend at the end contain both of those texts and more. It's great stuff!
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  5444. Charizard...uh, I mean Paimon - I choose you !
    2
  5445. I hear that British guy narrating the scene :)
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  5446.  @danielfarmer2248  ;) thank for being a sport and enjoying my (non-joke) content!
    2
  5447. How many gods do this amulet reference? I think by 7th century Judea strong aniconic henotheism would have been a popular position with elite temple adjacent folks.
    2
  5448. I'll have them on my website in a couple weeks
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  5449. Psychology
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  5450. nah, social media scares me more than any demons or black magic
    2
  5451. Thanks for watching and the suggestion. I may do a poll soon to see if folks are interested in more film reviews.
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  5452. I'm just a Jew, nothing else 'spiritual' in any form.
    2
  5453. Thanks, Marco!
    2
  5454. 💯
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  5455. Seek and you may find
    2
  5456. Check out Chris Brennan's Hellenistic astrology
    2
  5457. But that descent of Ishtar quote ;)
    2
  5458. Nah no distillation till much later
    2
  5459. FIRST.....ish
    2
  5460. Eh, this one is for the real hardcore fans
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  5461. Depends on the stoic and it depends on the interpretation of what they left behind
    2
  5462. Any questions about conversion should go to your local rabbi ;)
    2
  5463. Says who?
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  5464.  @TheresFuckeryAfoot  Ah, so no connection to actual history evidence. Just making sure.
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  5465.  @TheresFuckeryAfoot  I think you might be missing a verb there.
    2
  5466. phd philosophy, ma/drs religious studies
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  5467. Just contact Aubrey - they're working on it!
    2
  5468. hopefully proton-chainsaws :) But yes, that would be a nice business model!
    2
  5469. Very much the opposite
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  5470. Thanks - pretty nice Yunzi stones :)
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  5471. Watch the video and find out
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  5472. When I understand what on the world he's talking about at least half the time then maybe ;)
    2
  5473. Take your chances ;)
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  5474. Eventually!
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  5475.  @maria369  ...as long as I'm the handsome one ;)
    2
  5476. Nah these were written millennia later
    2
  5477. I'd rather the other way round.
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  5478.  @evans808274mc9la  np!
    2
  5479. Probably an actual dualist text probably not the production of a cathar "church"
    2
  5480. Nope not any trustworthy evidence but sometimes people claim maleficia in hopes a confession will save them
    2
  5481. Definitely
    2
  5482. It's so interesting to see so many people that read in their dreams!
    2
  5483. Many thanks !
    2
  5484. Seems reasonable
    2
  5485. In the description
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  5486. What a kind comment - many thanks !
    2
  5487. Helped how? Also thanks so much for the kind words !
    2
  5488. Verily
    2
  5489. Lol!
    2
  5490. Take it up with ML West
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  5491. My most profound condolences
    2
  5492. Lock it in now before interest rates fall
    2
  5493. Yep, certainly will!
    2
  5494. lotta smoke, but not fire. The Gold of a Thousand Mornings is kinda neat though!
    2
  5495. As far as nous can perceive...
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  5496. Sounds like some crazy history channel stuff but yep, treasure map!
    2
  5497. Yeah, me too
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  5498. Great question for let's talk religion
    2
  5499. Yep, too contemporary
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  5500. That whole 'be 40, have kids, etc.' rule was only instituted after the mess with Sabbatai Zevi. Prior to that people studied as they could and I'm sure that rule wasn't universally observed anyhow.
    2
  5501. Many parts are, just not the Zohar parts ;)
    2
  5502.  @lh384  nope and more nope
    2
  5503. Needs to be a Goonies 2
    2
  5504. No, ancient people knew the world was round. Only modern people are that stupid.
    2
  5505. Thanks for watching!
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  5506. Yeah, even the e-book is over $100. Academic published FML
    2
  5507. Thanks, friend!
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  5508. Yep, that's why I work and display the original languages whenever possible.
    2
  5509. Of course, but this is an evidence based, academic channel.
    2
  5510. Coming up !
    2
  5511. That's not quite how the skeptical argument works
    2
  5512. On no it was active then but not as violently as in southern France
    2
  5513. auction
    2
  5514. It was still very poly even after Josiahs inquisition - he failed and then died picking a fight he couldn't possibly win.
    2
  5515. I think I, in fact, literally said that.
    2
  5516. Need to watch it!
    2
  5517. No one volume does but patai's Hebrew goddess is a great resources
    2
  5518.  @suzannetol  yes yes yes
    2
  5519. It's highly unlikely
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  5520. Thanks - always welcome comments and conversations here or via my website!
    2
  5521. From a slightly later period - probably sometime in the late classical period.
    2
  5522. This is as terrifying as it is sad. Good luck in your fight for freedom and equality.
    2
  5523. Maybe, though conic sections aren't terribly esoteric
    2
  5524. It's distributed through his cosmological works.
    2
  5525. She's so great
    2
  5526. Bell witch is more doom metal, imho
    2
  5527. Zero evidence of Chinese influence on European alchemy
    2
  5528. Maybe, though I think it's mostly coming from the jung eliade Atwood trifecta with some new age toppings sprinkled on.
    2
  5529. no, not really.
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  5530. Both wonderful films / shows!
    2
  5531. Eh, I'd rather educate than debunk or criticize but might be fun from time to time
    2
  5532. Thanks!
    2
  5533. Yeah, I think we are all wondering about that. Damn angels never coughed up the goods.
    2
  5534. Maqlu time!
    2
  5535. Have a whole episode about it.
    2
  5536. I'm rather unconvinced of his position and find his treatment of other scholars disrespectful
    2
  5537. Yep, on the faq in my website
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  5538.  @mikelisi3761  no, that would be "avodah Zara"
    2
  5539. I'm sure I'll find another one at some point and maybe by then you can get it
    2
  5540. It really is nice considering how much solid content is emerging.
    2
  5541. Oh trust me, I hate academic publishing for just this sort of stuff.
    2
  5542. I trust Crowley about as far as I can throw him
    2
  5543. Yeah, evidence is a helluva thing
    2
  5544. what demons?
    2
  5545. Could be - interesting thoughts! Thanks !
    2
  5546. Haven't read 'em - probably need to get around to that.
    2
  5547. Not exactly, the chariot/throne is God's not the angels, the traveling is done by the mystics who descend into the palaces as opposed to being traveling to meet the mystics. The angels never leave their palaces, they are defense soldiers of specific regions of the palaces. Honestly, I don't see much in the way of parallels at all between these texts and so-called UFO visitations - they seem to be almost exactly opposite in most respects.
    2
  5548. You might want to see what episodes I've made before telling me what I 'need' to do.
    2
  5549. I have a recent episode/ conversation about learning ancient languages - check it out !
    2
  5550. Sure? No I just don't care
    2
  5551. Yeah, that's what it meant. The good and the evil all went down to She'ol forever. The Israelites believed that any reward for being good or punishment for being bad would occur in this life and later Judaism (at least one position) held that being good or bad was it's own reward or punishment rather than being rewarded or punished in the afterlife. As recounted in Pirke Avot "אנטיגנוס איש סוכו קבל משמעון הצדיק. הוא היה אומר, אל תהיו כעבדים המשמשין את הרב על מנת לקבל פרס, אלא הוו כעבדים המשמשין את הרב שלא על מנת לקבל פרס, ויהי מורא שמים עליכם" - "Antigonus a man of Socho received [the oral tradition] from Shimon the Righteous. He used to say: do not be like servants who serve the master in the expectation of receiving a reward, but be like servants who serve the master without the expectation of receiving a reward, and let the fear of Heaven be upon you."
    2
  5552. Thanks - glad you are finding the content engaging!
    2
  5553. I actually worked as a barista for a few years as a teen actually.
    2
  5554. Probably not
    2
  5555. Interesting though it's a bit anachronistic - Kabbalah is 1100 years ahead of summer harvest
    2
  5556. There's no evidence of any
    2
  5557. You don't know much about medieval clerics ;)
    2
  5558. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  5559. Thanks for you kind comment and generous support!
    2
  5560. Yep next video!
    2
  5561. It's a small copper distillation apparatus made in Portugal
    2
  5562. True story
    2
  5563. This is the real mysticism, berk ;)
    2
  5564. Awesome, thank you!
    2
  5565. nah, that old scholem thesis has been refuted.
    2
  5566. Abs thank you for the awesome gift! Sending some unboxing pics your way soon !
    2
  5567. Ha! "LEt'S GeT SlaMMed!"
    2
  5568. Thanks!
    2
  5569. I've not seen anything like that in a historical text. Lot's of variations of the Hebrew alphabet (like those in Agrippa) but I've not seen anything like this - neat, I guess. In general, the Star of David has only really gone on to become THE symbol of Jews and Judaism with the rise of State of Israel. Though, for instance, it was used for the influential community of Prague though I think it was red and gold and not blue and white.
    2
  5570. I think I say as much as well
    2
  5571. I lift 4 times a week, think Dan attrell also listens, at least on leg day ;)
    2
  5572. JPS for a nice Hebrew facing translation - the Alter for poetry
    2
  5573. Nice ;)
    2
  5574. Robert Stack overcoat in fog GOAT
    2
  5575. What are rules for if not...
    2
  5576. Yeah, Parmenides hits different
    2
  5577. "I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them." - Spinoza
    2
  5578. Send my regards, hope he's resting well and found what he was looking for in the end.
    2
  5579. :) Thanks - Yep, coming down the pike!
    2
  5580. Certainly cheaper
    2
  5581. No, probably not
    2
  5582. "Yahweh" is just an academic vocalization
    2
  5583. This is an academic channel - I don't really issue my own opinion, except on livestreams or something
    2
  5584. Yep antique books can run you broke fast - from experience I know this ;)
    2
  5585. Edgey Epicureans - Edgeycureans
    2
  5586. Also I'm all about the ST's protection of the separation of church and state.
    2
  5587. William Blake's The Great Red Dragon and Woman Clothed in Sun
    2
  5588. Might want to read the title of the episode again ;)
    2
  5589. May his sublime merit protect us
    2
  5590. Great question - I want to look that up !
    2
  5591. must be.....
    2
  5592. Nope it was horrible
    2
  5593. I'm guessing you didn't watch the episode?
    2
  5594. I'm sorry to hear about your trouble and wish you a wonderful new year!
    2
  5595. Yep!
    2
  5596. Yeah it's odd they're not talked about more, at least outside of proto-protestant talk
    2
  5597. Many thanks !
    2
  5598. No, certainly not
    2
  5599. Thanks and thanks for watching!
    2
  5600. At some point I'm sure I will
    2
  5601. Mosin nagant - already mentioned in another comment
    2
  5602. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    2
  5603. I have an entire episode on Newton's view on the emerald tablet if you want to check that out
    2
  5604. If it were found, assuming it's real, would be a great seed fund for reparations
    2
  5605. Like virtually anything else
    2
  5606. Thanks so much - glad you enjoy the content!
    2
  5607. Not his father, the guy that killed his father.
    2
  5608. Thanks! Glad you are liking my content!
    2
  5609. Not yet - I'll probably expand the social media as the channel grows!
    2
  5610. Yep, "revolutionary optimism" they call it
    2
  5611. Nah, very ancient
    2
  5612. "1. Let the Magician, robed and armed as he may deem to be fit, turn his face towards Boleskine, that is the House of The Beast 666. {Note 1: Boleskine House is on Loch Ness, 17 miles from Inverness, Latitude 57.14 N. Longitude 4.28 W.}" - Liber vel Reguli but uh, do what thou wilt or what have thee.
    2
  5613. Welcome! - what's the Irish say?
    2
  5614.  @CBennett420  Yep - totally possible, I don't have much a dog in the fight either way but seems like a totally reasonable position.
    2
  5615. Ha!
    2
  5616. @Mr. Mɪɴk I would love to hang out more with Dr. Puca! Though I don't think I have time for a podcast these days. Sepehr, however, is a peddler of conspiratorial racist nonsense.
    2
  5617. The Thoth text is a modern channel text. The Emerald Tablets are historical texts.
    2
  5618. Thanks friend!
    2
  5619. That dating is disputed
    2
  5620. Agrippa!
    2
  5621. I'll be doing more courses but they will always be accessible to the public. Happy New Year!
    2
  5622. Glad you are finding the content helpful and many thanks for your support for the channel!
    2
  5623. Jb weld is what I use
    2
  5624. Did you watch to the end?
    2
  5625. Many many thanks for this super kind comment and your support!
    2
  5626. There's no evidence for such a connection.
    2
  5627. Two or three...
    2
  5628. Administrators' paychecks
    2
  5629. Not from Michigan, but I live here!
    2
  5630. For real - I wonder how many people got into book I of adversus and just gave up
    2
  5631. It's true, I really enjoy Irenaeus and Hippolytus of Rome - well worth studying!
    2
  5632. Next episode!
    2
  5633. Good for you ! We all start at 0 subs, best of luck with your project!
    2
  5634. I'd love to work with him, but don't know how to contact him.
    2
  5635. Sadly it's just so expensive
    2
  5636. He has that effect on people
    2
  5637. Then why not just use the simple word for ground, nope.
    2
  5638. Yeah, being a one stop shop for everything from research to production means wearing a lot of hats and not all of them well! Glad you like the content!
    2
  5639. Yeah it kinda did!
    2
  5640. Thanks so much for sharing!
    2
  5641. Thanks for the support!
    2
  5642. me too
    2
  5643. I'd hate to have to read it on screens, though
    2
  5644. I am curious to ask you a few questions - could you reach out to me via my website?
    2
  5645. I do collect and deal in some antiquarian occult books
    2
  5646. Thanks and of course - I hope I always work to given credit when it's due and that's certainly the case for Adam's work.
    2
  5647. Heno- to monotheistic
    2
  5648. Japanese puzzle boxes!
    2
  5649. There's no document called the "greater key" and dozens of varied texts called "key of Solomon"
    2
  5650. No idea, the LKS textual situation is pretty well understood, the clavicula Solomonis Ms history is a wild west
    2
  5651. Ask and ye shall receive
    2
  5652. I'm putting my money on smart humans, cheap labor, and playing the civilization long game.
    2
  5653. Thanks, Denis. I've done all of that and they're still not releasing it. Further it automatically trips the AI anytime I upload anything new.
    2
  5654. Thanks - it's just shocking that I literally paid for a recording and it still gets attacked. How ridiculous! But, I hope you're well!
    2
  5655. Many thanks!
    2
  5656. It's possible, or just a natural deduction given the the causal cascade
    2
  5657. Thanks! I'll try to do the translation video sometime this summer!
    2
  5658. Thanks for saying so, Paul!
    2
  5659. That episode will be restricted to only his discussions of alchemy in the Aurora and signatura. Böhm's theosophy is often just a mess of ideas, though.
    2
  5660. This Friday at 4pm Detroit time!
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  5661.  @SeekersofUnity  considering they're all about cosmic scales, you're right ;)
    2
  5662. Only the one by Brill is a modern, academic edition.
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  5663. Great comment
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  5664. It's historically interesting but not historically accurate.
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  5665. Not online it's in my episode about it
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  5666. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/11QMelchizedek.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjUoua_woqMAxXLEjQIHYjvIQUQFnoECFkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Kkr8MEHqlWbTp9QcoT9Vp
    2
  5667. Castle
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  5668. Yeah, at least kant actually makes sense ;)
    2
  5669. Thorndike - History of Magic & Experimental Science
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  5670.  @profbri.02  It's great and a monumental work though a little dated. It can also be hard to find and expensive. The whole thing can be found on archive.org though.
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  5671. No, but I have seen some that have curses in them for people that steal the books
    2
  5672. I really appreciate it - going to keep the channel as high quality as I can!
    2
  5673. Early divine name, variant of יהוה
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  5674. No one knows
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  5675. Did I express my opinions here?
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  5676. One would hope so!
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  5677. Glad you enjoyed it
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  5678. Yep, the one in A'dam is one of my favorite places to sit and just think. It's just lovely and peaceful.
    2
  5679. Thanks for the kinds words, the support and the great questions, Jorge. I deeply appreciate them all!
    2
  5680. Yep, rip
    2
  5681. Which recipe do you use?
    2
  5682. Definitely.
    2
  5683. Thanks! Alchemy doesn't need to be totally obscure on purpose - glad the content is helpful!
    2
  5684. Yeah....no
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  5685. To be clear, I'm fine with a subscription platform. My skepticism is with the experiment.
    2
  5686. No
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  5687. already did
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  5688. Lecturing on them this week and taught a whole class about him/them once.
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  5689. And in papryus notation!
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  5690. The Meyer edition is good.
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  5691. I'm not much of a comparativist myself
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  5692. Being an accomplished alchemist was a good predictor of early death
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  5693. It's honestly pretty short - One could do a close reading in only a weekend. Unlike Ficino's multi-volume Platonic Theology, for instance. Give it a read!
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  5694. It would be very English of him, the discreteness.
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  5695. Looks like marc got out of the game. Deleted the link.
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  5696. I have a whole episode on sefer yetzitah
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  5697. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  5698. Discussed in this very video!
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  5699. I'm a structural Marxist and very much a positivist. Of course he had many interesting ideas but I think many of them were redundant or only superficially interesting
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  5700. Oh there were
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  5701. It's interesting but useless for obtaining academic knowledge of, for instance, historical mythology
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  5702. Not to my knowledge
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  5703. You read Hebrew in Rashi script?
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  5704.  @waytoblue625  Sadly, there's no English translation yet. I'm sure one will appear eventually.
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  5705. That's very kind - I'm going to see how this shakes out and go from there.
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  5706. Future episode
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  5707.  @conniestone6251  probably if they existed as such
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  5708. Absolutley!
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  5709.  @IlyaYakubovich  Sounds reasonable to me. I've always wonder why the child sacrifice angle though. The Shedu aren't really divine entities or gods so much. I've often wondered if this is a kind of garbled cultural memory by D, but I wonder about the dating of that Psalm which, to my read, seems very D-like.
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  5710. This is the literature referenced "in the JTS library"
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  5711. It was world class, profs were super helpful and with the Ritman there it was just wonderful! Miss a'dam a ton
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  5712. What an interesting comparison !
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  5713. Thanks for the kind comment - do you have a news link or anything about the theft?
    2
  5714. Yep, I've kinda touched on it in my episode on the lesser key of solomon.
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  5715. Definitely not
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  5716. like me listening to the Sesame Street Jamboree record that I hate for hours on end with my kids and finding the divinity within.
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  5717. I've thought a lot of about this as well. Maybe at some point we could have a forum. Truth but told, I think medieval people were pretty on point.
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  5718. Huh?
    2
  5719. Cardo
    2
  5720. Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
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  5721. Congrats!
    2
  5722. As you said, kind of ;)
    2
  5723. It can surely be an important spiritual practice for some but I personally haven't seen any evidence of its efficacy and remain a metaphysical materialist.
    2
  5724. Or that all these beings are myths and legends
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  5725. Thanks so much for saying so!
    2
  5726. Just the verses I quoted on the episode
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  5727. That like worshipping "Jehovah" or any other made up approximation. People get up to some weird stuff.
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  5728. Thank you too for watching - I really appreciate the comment.
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  5729. Yeah I couldn't even translate that stuff, I'd get demonetized
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  5730. Yeah....the sequel is also an hour :)
    2
  5731. Hex magic! Uhhh, I don't I implanted it properly
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  5732. That's great - this would be a perfect magical device for Mr T.
    2
  5733. This channel deals with the facts of these texts as history not the truth of them as confession
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  5734. Yep, that'd be it
    2
  5735. That's a great idea - love his content!
    2
  5736. It literally says that Yahweh sent an evil spirit
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  5737. This discussion is about philosophical issues related to astrology in the Hellenistic period alone
    2
  5738. - Bill Blake
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  5739. No, probably not. That's a more contemporary concept
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  5740. Yep it's on here!
    2
  5741. Gotta tell the temple builder's union
    2
  5742. ✊
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  5743. Not any time soon
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  5744.  @gabriellawrence6598  nah, not really. seems cool, though
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  5745.  @smellysock4260  yep, that's why I study it!
    2
  5746. Maybe at some point
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  5747. I believe in horoscopes about as much as I do enochian spirits
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  5748. basically no
    2
  5749. Pentacle of Solomon to be sewn into the vestments of the magus
    2
  5750. it all seems kinda silly to me, tbh
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  5751. It's more like that it's just two similar narratives knit together rather than two wholly different sequential narratives
    2
  5752. smt?
    2
  5753. No, I don't have any expertise on those topics, fascinating as they are!
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  5754. Dated but not terrible - good translation but often they fail to understand the kabbalistic context - here tishby and especially Matt are better
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  5755. Eventually.... ;)
    2
  5756. yeah....no.
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  5757. The former
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  5758. It's very appreciated thank you so much!
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  5759. Nope answered in other comments
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  5760. Yep, in the works. So much of it is still in Latin....so, slow going.
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  5761. Solid analogy
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  5762. It's funny that only after becoming a antiquarian book collector / dealer has this aspect of understanding books become very clear to me. Having the antiques volumes in hand has given me this insight that I was otherwise lacking - the materiality of the book clearly has an impact on the ideas contained within it. It's a concept that should have been obvious to me but shows another avenue in which pure academic treatment of this material can end up missing the mark. Hope you're well, friend!
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  5763. Thanks for saying so, Paul. Hope you are doing well, friend!
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  5764. What evidence do you have that the church altered the scrolls?
    2
  5765. Great comment
    2
  5766. I've made several already
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  5767. .....thanks?
    2
  5768. Pick up Wheelock Latin and work through it cover to cover
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  5769.  @tomfedderer130  Is so far as you are right, that makes me less interested in 'magic' - also, my Judaism follows from the teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan who precisely based Judaism on a rejection of supernaturalism in all forms.
    2
  5770. See, most requested book proved!
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  5771. Yep!
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  5772. One can only hope.
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  5773. Probably not anything that general
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  5774. 16th century copy of malleus maleficarum
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  5775. Glad it was helpful! Check out our other content!
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  5776. No, not really.
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  5777. We could have used some weather witches last summer with all those fires, etc.!
    2
  5778. Your guess is as good as mine
    2
  5779. No, we have some ideas about the ideas of the corpus hermeticum
    2
  5780.  @toniademertzi4898  The word 'Pandæmonium' was literally invented by John Milton to be the capital of Hell in Paradise Lost. He clearly meant it in the sense of 'demons' as in malevolent, fallen angels and has come to mean 'chaos,' also much as Milton meant it.
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  5781. Probably not, all of these books (and all mss) are riddled with spelling errors or orthography just hasn't settled yet.
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  5782.  @shemuelthesabbatian1254  yeah, it would be great to get modern academic editions - drop links to the ones you referenced!
    2
  5783. The narratives of the genesis patriarchs and the exodus aren't substantiated by archaeological evidence or otherwise. I suspect they are mythology.
    2
  5784. Absolutely - thanks for watching!
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  5785. There's no evidence they ever met prior to the exorcism during his trial. He was a cad for sure but he could easily sleep with any of the women in the town as opposed to the convent.
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  5786. While it never occurs exactly in this form in his writings the razor is "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)." In this case, given the preponderance of evidence the most likely conclusion can only be the Ark was destroyed.
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  5787. Neither
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  5788. makes sense!
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  5789. It's always how it struct me honestly, it's not a perfect analogy, but I think it gets close.
    2
  5790. What if I told you I have a whole episode about that?
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  5791. Why so?
    2
  5792. It's certainly worth reading but only if you're willing to do the work to deal with its complicated redaction
    2
  5793. Huh?
    2
  5794. 29.3
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  5795. The three volume South Asia research edition out by Oxford
    2
  5796. Yeah, it's costly but it's the best
    2
  5797. Mostly did translations - a few of which survive - not terribly interesting otherwise.
    2
  5798. I bet 90% of people watching this channel do ;)
    2
  5799.  @TruthIsNot4Sale  like the oil from the Hebrew bible or the abramelin oil? As for the Bible oil, no one really knows how to make it.
    2
  5800. Not rumi, fake rumi
    2
  5801. Seriously though, yall find treasure and don't cut me in - I'll be real disappointed.
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  5802. That O'Shea book isn't an academic text - what 'cathar' source substantiates this claim?
    2
  5803. Yep, eventually
    2
  5804. Thanks!
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  5805. I'm not much of an expert in this area but hoping to bring on folks that are to discuss topics like this!
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  5806. I'm fairly confident these rites are based on the exorcist literature
    2
  5807. Yep - excited to get into it
    2
  5808. Radiometer
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  5809. Happy soon b'day!
    2
  5810.  @yochanan770  Yeah, its interesting that those two different cultures would create such similar images. Food for thought!
    2
  5811. I just bought an Agrippa bust from the same person!
    2
  5812. c r e e p s t e r
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  5813. Thanks!
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  5814. Imagery associated with Saturn & time
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  5815. Exactly
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  5816. Nope, quantum physics is the most rational, riguously established experimental science ever produced
    2
  5817.  @janedooley3991  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    2
  5818. I really appreciated the danvers memorial, etc
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  5819. Glad you enjoyed it. Check out my other content, may interest you as well!
    2
  5820. Check the community tab
    2
  5821. Great volumes!
    2
  5822. the whiskey helps
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  5823. It's myrrh.
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  5824. For Kant it was the opposite of hubris in this case
    2
  5825. Great idea !
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  5826. Totally agree.
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  5827. Ditto
    2
  5828. Mostly it wasn't - although in Zosimus I detect a very strong adjunct of religious philosophy that I think would count as 'spiritual' mixed in with his alchemical theories. I don't detect that so much in Maria. I think that 'spiritual' alchemy also re-appears (very) late in the alchemical tradition in Europe as well as described by Zuber in his diss. I think it's a very, very minority trend in alchemy and the Atwood/Jung readings are fundamentally ahistorical.
    2
  5829. Were you in a hardcore analytic department?
    2
  5830. Cologne
    2
  5831. https://www.ericpurdue.com/publications/three-books-of-occult-philosophy
    2
  5832. Sometimes fascists hide behind things
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  5833. Good advice;)
    2
  5834. Brill
    2
  5835. They still have those hidden cleaning fees ? Like 2.5 stars max
    2
  5836. Strikes me as pot and kettle
    2
  5837. It really is a key text and a pity it's so hard to find!
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  5838. On the list for sure - Mithras stuff I believe
    2
  5839. Astruc Dapiera
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  5840. Isn't this just a complicated way of saying that "mystical states are non-noetic."
    2
  5841. Right now the channel is focusing on historical stuff but we may eventually get to more contemporary things as well - Thanks for watching!
    2
  5842. Umbero Eco
    2
  5843. Not so much esoteric but interesting for sure!
    2
  5844. Sometime this year
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  5845. Yep, we're a bonkers species
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  5846. No where near 10th bce
    2
  5847. Meyer
    2
  5848. I can tell from this question that you watched the episode very closely!
    2
  5849. Nah Jackson Crawford is your guy there
    2
  5850. Did you watch to the end?
    2
  5851. Summer cold
    2
  5852. Probably acting only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law
    2
  5853. Yep, I'm always trying to improve things around here
    2
  5854. Sometimes they are, but Ladino was more of a spoken than a written language. Hebrew was always the learned language, like Latin.
    2
  5855.  @benalichante1269  It did! Took long enough but it turned out great!
    2
  5856. Welcome!
    2
  5857. Thanks - I certainly don't want to "whitewash" history but it seems every culture depicts their interpretation of historical religious figures as looking like them
    2
  5858. Thanks for your question and thoughtful replies!
    2
  5859. Also, is that Pete the cat
    2
  5860. Being a patreon supporter gives you the ability to join the lectures live when I'm giving them and do live q&a + digital office hours
    2
  5861. This is generally true. However, there are instances where Kelley goes along with these angelic commandments, often at great risk to himself. I think there are enough me to getting circumstances to justify what Luhrmam calls "epistemic drift"
    2
  5862.  @samuelshepard  Yep, got two new ones in the mix!
    2
  5863. No it's absolutely and devoutly Christian
    2
  5864. Thanks and welcome aboard!
    2
  5865. already did!
    2
  5866. Thanks, friend!
    2
  5867. 𒀭!
    2
  5868. No and no. We just didn't have time to get to them. Maybe in a part ii!
    2
  5869. The pagination was added much later
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  5870.  @andythedishwasher1117  No, for sure - the whole business of the "reform" of Josiah, the 'discovery' of the scroll, the vetting by Hulda and the destruction of both Pagan and Non-Jerusalem shrines (e.g., Tel Arad) is a watershed moment in Israelite History. One wonders how things would have gone if Josiah weren't killed by Necho II!
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  5871. That isn't my channel, but Jason is fantastic!
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  5872. It would be interesting and profoundly difficult - the Parmenides is one of the most difficult texts of ancient philosophy by any metric.
    2
  5873. Got lucky at an auction.
    2
  5874. What a nice comment- thanks so much!
    2
  5875. Many Continental folks do
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  5876. Thank the lxx for that
    2
  5877. Yep, in Detroit but from down South
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  5878. onacuz Hebrew :)
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  5879. Many thanks for this generous donation !
    2
  5880. כן
    2
  5881. Sanity I'd guess
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  5882. Weakling
    2
  5883. Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you are well!
    2
  5884. Probably not
    2
  5885. Unless we stop them
    2
  5886. And, yet, I still think theurgy is nonsense.
    2
  5887. Also, between us, I much prefer the orthodox folks to the 'gnostics.' Intellectually speaking, much more interesting and thoughtful.
    2
  5888.  @profbri.02  The historical druids, but probably not the contemporary reconstructionism.
    2
  5889. link in the description
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  5890. I don't think the historical Jesus taught any of this
    2
  5891. Playing WITTR now \m/
    2
  5892. In vanishingly marginal ways, yes.
    2
  5893. Pick a random Palestinian - that.
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  5894. just gotta figure out what the PQQ plant was! Best analysis I've seen is that PQQ = “coloquinth”, may correspond to Akkadian “colocynth” or to Hebrew paqaq , “the node of a plant”, or even perhaps to Hebrew peqeq, “knot of a vine shoot”. An alternative is Akkadian pukuttu, a thorny weed, used as a drug.
    2
  5895. Haven't heard of it - have to look it up!
    2
  5896. Thanks! Funny how we were basically planning the same thing the same week ;)
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  5897. No, that's kinda mysticism. The goal of alchemy was typically metallic transmutation among other things eg universal solvent, medicines, etc
    2
  5898. Thanks!
    2
  5899.  @andythedishwasher1117  yep, it's a shame. Hopefully this channel can be part of providing solid information to beat back sheisters like that
    2
  5900. Thanks...I'm always happy when people appreciate my sense of 'humor' ;)
    2
  5901. apparently, at least according to the Davidic propogandists
    2
  5902. The "axial age" they call it
    2
  5903. It's fascinating stuff
    2
  5904. Nah, frum folks are down with it, but consider that stuff a higher level of study. They are earlier texts of more 'traditional' prophecy
    2
  5905. That's the goal of the channel - to make them accessible and free with crowdfunding. I'm glad it's working.
    2
  5906. Even worse is during the Enochian session is when Dee has the correct the Latin grammar of the angels :)
    2
  5907. Being and Time isn't so bad, no one should read Cap. And sciz. Unless they have a very specific bone to pic with lacan. As I get older I realize I'm more and more on team lacan.
    2
  5908. I probably won't
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  5909. Glad it was helpful!
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  5910. It was terrible, but at least I can use my experience as a tool for showing how dangerous such panics can be.
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  5911. Nice - let me know what you think!
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  5912. Protection, they captured demons
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  5913. Maybe someday, brother. Hope you are well!
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  5914. I'm guessing you missed that "this is an academic channel" part of my reply
    2
  5915. I don't think so, but maybe some people are kinda syncretistic. Wicca is a 20th century religion.
    2
  5916. The short answer is kinda. I'll be dealing with that question in the second episode!
    2
  5917. Pre the 132 bar kokhba rebellion
    2
  5918. a hammer?
    2
  5919. When do we have verified historical accounts of free-masonry coming into existence?
    2
  5920. I have a whole episode about and these works were long lost before it was ever built.
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  5921. Many thanks !
    2
  5922. They don't, but their prices do.
    2
  5923. Yeah, kinda
    2
  5924. Verily
    2
  5925. Nice to know!
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  5926. I don't think so.
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  5927.  @isaacvizas2343  Long before the codification of the Zohar, probably before the codification of the Babylonian Talmud , I'd say. In fact, Enoch II and III had more of an impact on Judaism than did Enoch I. They weren't rejected because they were 'dangerous wisdom' they were rejected because the rabbis came to the conclusion that they were nonsense, a kind of ancient fan fiction. Ditto, the Christians.
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  5928. Thanks, friend for watching and sharing - and your kind comments! I am happy the content is being well received and hope to keep making more!
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  5929. Funny kinda background noise, but I can dig it :)
    2
  5930. Wow thanks do much for the kind words and supporting this project!
    2
  5931. Better nilered
    2
  5932. Likely, though indirectly. Hold that thought for a couple weeks. Episode on the Lesser Key in the making!
    2
  5933. limen
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  5934. Zorokothora Melchizedek
    2
  5935. Not sure about Abigail - she's a bit of a mystery in lots of ways
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  5936. Not yet, sometime 1st quarter of '23 - stick around :)
    2
  5937. Huh? Sumerian is an isolate.
    2
  5938.  @Randomhkl  yep and so have thousands of linguistists - it's an isolate. Do you read Sumerian? Which grammar did you use to learn it?
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  5939.  @Randomhkl  good luck with your studies!
    2
  5940.  @mikebaker2436  There isn't, to my knowledge, evidence that he prepared a systematic theology / religious philosophy. Of course, he had a position on various topics but I'm not aware that it was systematic in this sense.
    2
  5941. In so far as Enoch is both
    2
  5942. Source?
    2
  5943. Yep, coming eventually
    2
  5944. Very little I think
    2
  5945. Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
    2
  5946. This was prepared with very high quality neutral, no chances of blindness here.
    2
  5947. Tozgrec
    2
  5948. Yep!
    2
  5949. Godspeed!
    2
  5950. ;)
    2
  5951. The store tab on the channel - thanks !
    2
  5952. I attune healm of badassery +2 against Larry
    2
  5953. Hurrah for Detroit!
    2
  5954. It's fantastic
    2
  5955. That's the Spanish inquisition not the medieval inquisition.
    2
  5956. Thanks so much for sharing the content!
    2
  5957. For sure, though it isn't clear what he means from that fragment. But yes, Thales gives us the first logical deduction in history a truly monumental achievement!
    2
  5958. Yep, will certainly happen at some point! Thanks for watching!
    2
  5959. Nope
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  5960. Grateful for your watching!
    2
  5961. I support this
    2
  5962. First as gothic, then as farce
    2
  5963. That's the guy
    2
  5964. I've been trying to track down her newspaper articles and books and it's surprisingly difficult. To my knowledge, no biography of her exists, sadly.
    2
  5965. Yep, there is just a ton of academic debate about just who he who he was or if he existed - at this point that debate seems still pretty early on.
    2
  5966. We're sorting that out!
    2
  5967. Yeah, the Judaism subreddit seems to be occupied with some rather dogmatic people on the topic. shrugs I'm not putting my content out there for them but for others that might want to actually learn something. Them getting in the way is just an inconvenience more than anything else.
    2
  5968. Yep, not an introductory channel - thanks for watching!
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  5969. Pretty doubtful I think.
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  5970. Compared to those folks I'm in good company
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  5971. You're not wrong !
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  5972. No, probably not on Peter.
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  5973. There's no evidence to support such a claim. Also the essenes, at least the dss ones, are about the least Buddhist sect I can imagine of that time.
    2
  5974. Well, he's the celestial philosophers' stone that 'tinges' the soul, the regular philosophers' stone is, well...still "the stone that is and is not a stone."
    2
  5975. Hold on, are you the same guy on reddit that says I need to read the complete idiot's guide to alchemy?
    2
  5976. Thanks
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  5977. I think I put a link in another comment to a website where you can buy one. Check around and see if you see it.
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  5978. It's not super hard french so I'm sure you can do it and at least it's all translated unlike the English edition (unless you read latin....then why not just read it in Latin ?)
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  5979. They're pretty good, actually
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  5980. Literally anything he's had contact with
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  5981. I make one at some point....in enochian, if course
    2
  5982. Yep, I'll do some here and there!
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  5983. I follow the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, z"l, who rejected supernaturalism of any form. Also, religious Judaism and Marxism have important overlaps, e.g., in the thinking of Yehuda Ashlag.
    2
  5984. :) ILL is your friend :)
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  5985. Coming....soon I think
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  5986. I'm not
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  5987. There isn't one, though I'm very doubtful of the arguments I've seen there and elsewhere.
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  5988. I'll eventually do an episode on the Zohar and will cover the dating / authorship question but I'm with Scholem and Liebes. I also think it doesn't matter because it's a work of total genius regardless of who / when it was comprised.
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  5989. The pharisees forbid magic? Have you seen my episodes on Jewish magic?
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  5990. I'd love to do that!
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  5991. Mosin nagant
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  5992. I see what you did there
    2
  5993. It's fun fiction and laughable history
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  5994. I'm grateful for folks like you!
    2
  5995. It's an absinthe dripper - https://media-verticommnetwork1.netdna-ssl.com/wines/absinthe-dripper-see-saw-1123930-s163_e.jpg
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  5996.  @profbri.02  The ritual and gear of absinthe drinkers really are wonderful, as is the spirit, imho. Pick up a bottle of Lucid Absinthe (it's a great 'starter' absinthe) and let me know what you think!
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  5997.  @profbri.02  surprise, surprise - I worked on that team :)
    2
  5998.  @profbri.02  :)Absinthe was already banned in the USA years before any flappers showed up, same year the Titanic sunk (1912) and 1915 in France.
    2
  5999. Possible, but most of the artistic/calligraphic motifs are solidly mid-15th century ce.
    2
  6000. They really are interesting and worth reading up on, in my opinion at least.
    2
  6001. It's a decorative Portuguese still and welcome!
    2
  6002. The Jesus mushroom stuff is super fringe. I'm happy to take a all peer-reviewed comers with material, however!
    2
  6003. All gnosticism are monotheisms - the demiurge is just a false god
    2
  6004. with 90% of the text missing? Link?
    2
  6005. Thanks !
    2
  6006. You got that medieval phone
    2
  6007. That stuff is embarrassingly stupid.
    2
  6008. I always wondered why they expected the horses to be able to put anything, Humpty or otherwise, back together.
    2
  6009. Want to chime in on the discussion above - You think the Cathars or Catharism existed?
    2
  6010. I bet Freud would say so
    2
  6011. Gonna have my share this evening ;)
    2
  6012. Check out my alchemy playlist!
    2
  6013. No cryptologists took this 'solution' seriously
    2
  6014. Just trying to make solid content on these much deserved subjects and am humbled that folks are received it so well. Thanks for your support!
    2
  6015. Because Lilith kills babies and children
    2
  6016. No the developers of this mythology had no idea of that myth
    2
  6017. Large chunks of Etruscan are understood
    2
  6018. I mean not all of it but a substantial amount
    2
  6019. ditto :)
    2
  6020. That's what Nietzsche says
    2
  6021. Like hitting "random" on the character generator
    2
  6022. I made one - Find the link in the comments and let me know if you can't find it!
    2
  6023. Yep
    2
  6024. Outside of psychology, no.
    2
  6025. Link in the comments!
    2
  6026. I even got the octavo Portuguese edition of Eymerich's text because Poe confused it with the actual folio edition.
    2
  6027. Holmyard was a GOAT
    2
  6028. I've kinda covered it but there's also an important exorcism manual I need to get to as well.
    2
  6029. No cryptologists take these claims seriously
    2
  6030. That an extremely expensive shipping fees
    2
  6031. See comment below
    2
  6032. There's no evidence for this theory, though
    2
  6033. Yep
    2
  6034. [First person imperfect verb for "to be"] which [First person imperfect verb for "to be"]
    2
  6035. Thanks for the kinds words and saying so! Hope you enjoy the content.
    2
  6036. Yep, back in the day.
    2
  6037. Did he also feature koine Greek, transliterated Hebrew and an Egyptian hieroglyph along with (magical?) pseudo-Hieroglyphs all inscribed on a metal surface such as silver or lead?
    2
  6038.  @kyleoverman9224  Same with my kiddos! Thanks for watching!
    2
  6039. Because I make it pretty clear that I don't
    2
  6040. They are not
    2
  6041. It's great visionary poetry....though Crowley went through the aeythers backwards.
    2
  6042. Let's do it!
    2
  6043. Me too - I feel really blessed to have a bit more to enjoy. It's so special and I always hope I can enjoy such a taste of history with the respect it deserves.
    2
  6044. Nope...maybe some henna if I'm feeling prophetic
    2
  6045. It's not the same text and that savedow text is highly unreliable
    2
  6046. That's a great question and it's from such a remote period - the 'dark ages,' "Agobard" is a super archaic name for that region - that it's hard to get an answer. I tend to think that this stuff wasn't as esoteric then as it became. I think that also explains why Maimonides had to write a very public book trying to intellectually suppress it. Also, at that time, the church had far less power than it would in later periods, so I agree with you, that Jews, Christians (or various kinds), and even pagan were still probably interacting in the region to a much stronger degree than they would later.
    2
  6047. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  6048. Yep. Though, he does impose Lurianic ideas back onto SY which is highly anachronistic.
    2
  6049. Yep, been doing calligraphy for years. It's a form of meditation for me!
    2
  6050. Yeah, I kinda did
    2
  6051. This has been disproven
    2
  6052. Like free ads for Anna's archive
    2
  6053. מָמוֹנָא just means wealth
    2
  6054. Honestly, I don't know why the Calvinism part of the text is focused upon more - it's the most fascinating aspect, imho.
    2
  6055. How so ruined?
    2
  6056. Scholars now tend to think they were part of a shared ANE myth set rather than direct textual influence. Though there are literal attributions of Egyptian wisdom in the book of proverbs.
    2
  6057. I'm guessing you didn't watch the video
    2
  6058. It's not a Greek text, it's an Aramaic one. The word there is שֵׁדִים
    2
  6059. Any evidence of this on Hildegard's part ?
    2
  6060. Faq on my website answers this question ;)
    2
  6061. a wild Stephanie Tanner appears!
    2
  6062. Yep, gotta start somewhere - better than " kill them all, god will know his own."
    2
  6063. Yep, some shoresh...in modern Hebrew for 'glue' even.
    2
  6064. I did - you can find it in the link above!
    2
  6065. Don't forget the funky bunch
    2
  6066. Great stuff on a hot day !
    2
  6067. Next week !
    2
  6068. Did I? I just did an episode about alchemy last week.
    2
  6069. No, they sing Yechi Adoneinu...
    2
  6070. Awesome! Thanks for watching!
    2
  6071. Verily
    2
  6072. No, I'm not knowledgeable about that.
    2
  6073. Ahhhhh....no idea, but should be!
    2
  6074. And thanks for the kind words!
    2
  6075. It's solid, I have and recommend
    2
  6076.  @kuyarickkelley4719  who knows what will come out of mouth? Not even me sometimes
    2
  6077. Verily and most true.
    2
  6078. Nah, we buds
    2
  6079. I don't think I'm worthy to hang out in the divine council :)
    2
  6080. Thanks for watching!
    2
  6081. May haps ?
    2
  6082. Simple - my sense of humor is just that dry :)
    2
  6083.  @ShobeirSheida  esoterica bloopers!
    2
  6084. When Benjamin shows up you knows it's about to get weird - like 19th century flaneur hipsters walking their turtles through Paris weird....or Mithraism in this case.
    2
  6085. Ha!
    2
  6086. Why?
    2
  6087. That's plenty - I don't expect anyone to do more than they are able to support the mission of the channel. I'm blessed for any support.
    2
  6088. Nope, no other social media maybe at some point though
    2
  6089. Any and all support matters to me - thanks for yours!
    2
  6090. Out here doing my best - thanks for the kind words!
    2
  6091. Rye
    2
  6092. Not my lexicon, the text's
    2
  6093. Spinoza thought god wasn't a person but had a body and didn't care about being worshipped neither had a will to speak of
    2
  6094. Eh, pot and kettle, the Corpus Hermeticum isn't exactly a logically consistent set of texts either.
    2
  6095. Mayhaps
    2
  6096. Heard about that
    2
  6097. Nah, I don't think so - it's a reference to the Shamir.
    2
  6098. Ours as in everyone watching as well - but it's just me on the content creation side
    2
  6099. Glad you like it!
    2
  6100. Four elements from a medieval manuscript
    2
  6101. No one knows what it means or what language it comes from
    2
  6102. Thanks so much for the kind and thoughtful comments - especially on the live streams!
    2
  6103. Yep ' remembered '
    2
  6104. https://survey2020.philpeople.org/
    2
  6105. I'm sure they have but this is all mythology.
    2
  6106. Both have their origins as medicines, like absinthe
    2
  6107. Mosin
    2
  6108. I haven't but I would love to The problem is that there is very little literature on the topic. It's highly understudied unfortunately
    2
  6109. Team Jane Dee - these boys are crazy
    2
  6110. Someone else made that observation too - it's hilarious! Needs to be a meme
    2
  6111. verily
    2
  6112. It was just zayde's kugel recipe all along
    2
  6113. Welcome and nah, not really
    2
  6114. That's a neat one - congrats!
    2
  6115. Yep, tries to be very transparent here
    2
  6116. That's interesting but definitely not what was historically meant by alchemy.
    2
  6117. I have no idea what any of that means but I'm glad you concluded it ;)
    2
  6118. It wasn't and was actually a pretty common name
    2
  6119. I'm taking it as a sign of divine favor.
    2
  6120. They were pretty clearly archaic by the composition of the works are quoted in. So much so that it's not clear they were totally even understood then. I was suspect they were nearly lost at that time are very much lore of that time. Certainly, they were lost by the exilic period.
    2
  6121. Davila suggests that the texts referred to in Chr. were probably digests of previous literature that was otherwise lost. Seems reasonable to me.
    2
  6122. I'm guessing you missed you many times I said "mythology" in the episode
    2
  6123. Be careful, some weird stuff back there :)
    2
  6124. Thank you! Will do!
    2
  6125. Sure - if someone publishes a book then it's out there for everyone
    2
  6126. Yep
    2
  6127. Yep, check out our other content!
    2
  6128. worse the demon of student debt!
    2
  6129. We spell it 'nekkin' and it sounds more like after-play to me ;)
    2
  6130. Indeed!
    2
  6131. Check out my friend Angela over at Angela's Symposium and the Modern Hermeticist and Seekers of Unity all fine folks.
    2
  6132. Considering Atlantis is a myth probably not
    2
  6133. Orthodorks
    2
  6134. Thanks Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
    2
  6135. But it do
    2
  6136. Many, many thanks. Folks like YOU make it all possible!
    2
  6137. Welcome aboard and hope you stick around!
    2
  6138. And I'm fine with that, as long as they don't make up history to do so.
    2
  6139. Sounds like a good night!
    2
  6140. Wouldn't that be fun!
    2
  6141. Nope
    2
  6142. ὕλη
    2
  6143. In Islamic traditions there is a connection with Idris metatron Hermes etc
    2
  6144. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
    2
  6145.  @pw5013  both ;)
    2
  6146. Very unlikely
    2
  6147. From looking at the MSS I have, I haven't seen any worthwhile translations of this text.
    2
  6148. Most European art depicts her as red-headed.
    2
  6149. Glad you like them!
    2
  6150. Thankfully the data is apparently safe and will be restored
    2
  6151.  @Jasonleal77  Anyway you could contact me via my website and we could set up a trade? Would love to see the Berger Bottles too!
    2
  6152. girl...ish, and bounced back!
    2
  6153. Terminators are just where the lines that compose the letters/shapes come to an end. For instance the capital T has three terminators. You can see much finer detail in the text of the Greek magical Papyrus, the letters in Cornleius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and in the the Jewish text of Magic the Sefer Raziel, to name a few. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
    2
  6154. probably depends on what you mean by 'works'
    2
  6155.  @generalmalice7941  seems like it, at least for the folks that practice it.
    2
  6156. Slow burn joke ;)
    2
  6157. I think they have a work for that :)
    2
  6158. Thanks for that ! If you want to start studying Gnosticism , I'd get the The Gnostic Scriptures - 978-0274754151 & Gnostic Religion in Antiquity - 978-1107514799 IMHO, great texts to start and they'll keep you busy for a long, long time. Thanks for supporting the channel!
    2
  6159. I think when I made this he had only recently passed but no real rhyme or reason probably
    2
  6160. Not so hard, especially when the medieval people give you said numbered list.
    2
  6161. Yeah 'heretical' here is in scare quotes
    2
  6162. I have made a few already
    2
  6163. I'd love to, Tabor is a great scholar
    2
  6164. Thanks, I think someone else in the comments caught that too. Sorry, Arthur C!
    2
  6165.  @JoshMonreaux  Nah, not yet at least.
    2
  6166. The practice among conservationists is not to use gloves with antiquarian volumes. Clean dry hands is the rule.
    2
  6167. https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2019/11/21/no-love-for-white-gloves-or-the-cotton-menace/
    2
  6168.  @frankbakker2301  Welcome!
    2
  6169.  @TheModernHermeticist  That would be great. I just worked through the Platonic Theology so I've had Ficino on the mind as well. But for sure, let's be in touch! Thanks for the work you do!
    2
  6170.  @TheModernHermeticist  That is amazing news! Well done. I would be happy to help in anyway I can. Just shoot me an email and let's be in touch. Such important translation work here!
    2
  6171. Yeah, I don't think this is true. I read some Egyptian and teach Egyptian literature which, for the most part, is rather clear even in translation. This text is just especially difficult given it's technical language, ancient audience and fragmentary nature. You can pick up the three volume Lichtheim and it reads as clearly as anything else in ancient literature. The Egyptians were anything but "non-dual non-discursive" - they had a strong conception of sin and provided hundreds of spells and incantations for providing a positive afterlife. What Egyptian literature are you talking about here?
    2
  6172. Sure, it's fun.
    2
  6173. Nope, they can't and I say as much on the episode.
    2
  6174. Yep yep yep!
    2
  6175. Link ?
    2
  6176. The store tab on the channel!
    2
  6177. Everyone knew it came from the Arabs, even the name is Arabic.
    2
  6178. Nah, it's just a title for a member of the divine council.
    2
  6179. How many specific alchemists did I mention in this episode?
    2
  6180. Seek and you will find
    2
  6181. There are very strict definitions for magic in the codes and most things actually just don't fall within those definitions therefore making them de facto 'legal'
    2
  6182. Sic transit Gloria mundi
    2
  6183. yep
    2
  6184. There's no historical folklore of 'dybbuk boxes' - that's a recent development.
    2
  6185. Inter library loan
    2
  6186. I never expect anyone, especially anyone from a developing world country, to support the channel financially. You viewing and commenting with such kind words matters just as much and I appreciate it deeply. I'm happy to ship this volume to anyone that wins anywhere in the world especially if they are in the developing world. Your support is deeply appreciated.
    2
  6187. Also, this episode is super old...before I found my groove.
    2
  6188. Kinda except hanina is so badass he doesn't even realize it or try. Why did you type his name in Hebrew letters ?
    2
  6189. No but great topic
    2
  6190. Foe?
    2
  6191. This is the best backhanded compliment I've ever gotten
    2
  6192.  @joeramsayvideodump  Either way, I appreciate it - thanks!
    2
  6193. That's for you all to sort out. I can't tell you the meaning of this text any more than I can tell you the 'meaning' of the Great Gatsby.
    2
  6194.  @lamikairo  Because I do discuss it.
    2
  6195.  @groovyMysterioso  oh I got you, sure I guess
    2
  6196. Why?
    2
  6197. Yep, lots of work done here though it's very, very specialized.
    2
  6198. Taytay has one called alchemy apparently
    2
  6199. Such kind words - glad I could help!
    2
  6200. Almost ;)
    2
  6201. Here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caKNlW7sogEF7lAeYNbOQF9pt5O5b70yAXa-icUJO3o/edit
    2
  6202. I don't think I'm on a transmutive journey
    2
  6203. Nah, I don't know the first thing about poetry
    2
  6204. Thanks for this kind comment - I'm happy to be a conspiracy-free zone where this material can also be fun and still be pretty weird. Glad you are around! Happy new year!
    2
  6205. Yep, it's in the hermetic fragments episode
    2
  6206. Also good luck with your channel!
    2
  6207. https://youtu.be/IJkft2lUMD0
    2
  6208. Yes
    2
  6209. I'm told by people in the know that's more true in the past 30 years than in the first decades after V2
    2
  6210. It isn't
    2
  6211.  @mrl9418  this all tracks ;)
    2
  6212. Yep
    2
  6213. Hurray Michigan!
    2
  6214. Thanks so much Paul!
    2
  6215. Yep, ceteribus peribus.
    2
  6216. Just go the speed run Ars Nova version ;)
    2
  6217. I thought I did mention that perceived struggle, but yes, Sullivan's book is great and I have heard about those books!
    2
  6218. ....hopefully ;)
    2
  6219. You're thinking of gehinnom, though the burning trash thing is a 19th mistake
    2
  6220. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime - that's why I poop (and watch videos) on company time
    2
  6221. Neither of them came to pass in the way predicted.
    2
  6222. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caKNlW7sogEF7lAeYNbOQF9pt5O5b70yAXa-icUJO3o/edit
    2
  6223.  @missc2742  tis!
    2
  6224.  @missc2742  I've done a whole episode on Mayan Bloodletting Mysticism as well!
    2
  6225. that gum you like is coming back in style
    2
  6226. I'm follow Reconstructionist Judaism, specifically the teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan, z"l. I try to be an open book about my beliefs and I do my best to present the material here as 'objectively' as I can. I hope I do both well.
    2
  6227. Thanks, brother!
    2
  6228. If alchemy worked it seems to me you'd have the opposite problem
    2
  6229. Really!?
    2
  6230. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Antipalus_Maleficiorum/cr-ntgAACAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
    2
  6231. I would say that Hermetic Qabalah has actually deviated from Christian Cabala, it's more proximate genetic ancestor, but has fundamentally not gotten escape velocity from a priori Christian categories precisely because neither Christian Cabala nor Hermetic Qabalah really did the work to understand the source material, i.e., Zohar, etc. In fact, I think the Christians like Reuchlin, Postel, von Rosenroth, etc., did a pretty good job with the tools they had - far better than 19th century occultists with access to even better tools! In other words, "deviation" implies an origin and failing to understand that origin in its complexity seems either intellectual perilous or lazy or both.
    2
  6232.  @samuelshepard  yeah, there's a joke and you might no be getting it ;)
    2
  6233. Welcome! - Hope you find the content interesting!
    2
  6234. The gap...mind it - hope you are well, brother!
    2
  6235. On my website
    2
  6236. I haven't - Do you know of any texts that give alchemical interpretations?
    2
  6237. Many many thanks for your kind comments !
    2
  6238. I think Kant has a powerful takedown of Descartes in his concept of the fundamental appreception of consciousness. Schopenhauer very much acknowledges his debt to Eastern philosophy and I've done an episode on him too.
    2
  6239. Absolutely - will get the third part done later this summer or fall!
    2
  6240. Glad you liked them! Any support whatever, whenever is deeply appreciated. I think we are all looking for a little stability these days.
    2
  6241. Those aren't angels. Those "biblically accurate angels" videos are ironic in that way.
    2
  6242. There are definitely also skeptics there too - in fact that position really started in the francophone world
    2
  6243. It's easy to be brave these days and just want to encourage others to study these wonderful texts - thanks for watching!
    2
  6244. I mentioned it but sadly the release was delayed for technical reasons
    2
  6245. Hagia Sophia is a church. Pistis Sophia maybe? While discovered earlier it's a later MS
    2
  6246. Have a whole episode on it
    2
  6247. Thanks - it's such a lovely drink and I'm glad I have ~300 ml left to enjoy!
    2
  6248. :) Always Dante with the real downlow !
    2
  6249. unusual compliment, but I'll take it. Storm-God Yahweh was just an old 486.
    2
  6250. Esoteric juggaloism
    2
  6251. #lifegoals
    2
  6252. The magic mechanics in Dark Sun were awesome
    2
  6253. It was never the "history of the occult"
    2
  6254. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  6255. It says so on the coin
    2
  6256. Bet
    2
  6257. Maybe kinda
    2
  6258. Thanks, brother! I can only hope these videos can serve the whole community, from seasoned practitioners to skeptical academics. It's my honor to make this content for everyone.
    2
  6259. Yep, unusal but Orthodox
    2
  6260. Eventually
    2
  6261. That's assuming it ever was - romantic past stuff isn't for me.
    2
  6262. There are hundreds of not thousands of surviving alchemical texts. But we don't do conspiracy theories here - we do history supported by evidence and scholarship.
    2
  6263. Yeah, that's a really old position that all the yordei were gnostics of some kind. It's no longer held by scholars.
    2
  6264. Filip over at let's talk religion has it on lock, check out his channel!
    2
  6265. It's pretty sublime I have to admit.
    2
  6266. Thought that too, but which enochian?
    2
  6267. Mosin Nagan Oil/Solvent Can
    2
  6268. I did! Check out the episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYmnphCgzjw
    2
  6269. That's a great idea!
    2
  6270. She's pretty well known so probably not anytime soon
    2
  6271. True story
    2
  6272. That's so kind of you ! Thanks so much !
    2
  6273. You definitely can.
    2
  6274. I think the German translation has the whole Bruce codex in German. The Brill edition also renders the entire codex.
    2
  6275. pirate at will - that's the price corporations who gouge people should and must pay.
    2
  6276. Not.......yet. if they do I'll make another one.
    2
  6277. Mostly because it's just the word the medievals and ancient use for 'bad magic' - honestly, the term just ends up meaning very little the way it gets used.
    2
  6278. I'm not sure what that means, is it good ?
    2
  6279. Probably not, it's pretty well understood by Egyptologists. But I will be coming back to touch on the Coffin Texts, Book of Combing Forth by Day, Book of Breathing / Gates at some point
    2
  6280. he's another Michigander
    2
  6281. Certainly one of the more metal ways to predict the future, if I may say so.
    2
  6282. Depends on who you ask, but the usual position is that they don't represent a separate tree but the 'other side' of the seven lower sefirot
    2
  6283. Different art, that's the art of memory
    2
  6284. Yeah, Heidegger makes up all kinds of interesting stuff
    2
  6285. That's so cool - would be neat to be on the show sometime!
    2
  6286. Interesting - I'll have to look into that!
    2
  6287. g r o o v y - neat!
    2
  6288. Great beard......and armor, that gut
    2
  6289. b a s e d
    2
  6290. Here's the reference for the Armenian text - good luck! Manandyan, H. (1956). Hermeay Er’amec’i ar’ Askghepios «Sahmanq» (Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius, in Armenian), Banber Matenadarani, No 3. Yerevan.
    2
  6291. Who? I'm pretty skeptical.
    2
  6292. Thanks - welcome!
    2
  6293. Because that's how medieval people used that term
    2
  6294. Yeah, that stuff is often kinda rubbish
    2
  6295. not Enlil
    2
  6296. nah
    2
  6297. 20k sounds about right, actually. Maybe even low these days
    2
  6298. No evidence of any connection
    2
  6299. F*ck
    2
  6300. You're right - That's hilarious
    2
  6301. Never thought I'd see a comment like that - sorry!
    2
  6302. Glad you enjoy it!
    2
  6303. Totally modern idea, originating primarily around heterodox Lutherans. I have a video about it.
    2
  6304. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  6305. I think I said as much in the episode, right?
    2
  6306. I suppose I just don't think that "Yahweh" is actually the name of the KBH. It's just an academic vocalization to denote the Israelite deity.
    2
  6307. I'm not but I have tons of respect for the brothers I've met
    2
  6308. Seek and ye shall find
    2
  6309. Now they are, insofar as they exist at all
    2
  6310.  @2024HaranHassan  Oh, I'm religious. I just don't think there are any gods.
    2
  6311. Wait a few weeks ;)
    2
  6312. In his opera omnia
    2
  6313. Many thanks!
    2
  6314. Ironically, the Trappists - who make the best beer in the world, IMHO - are a stricter break away from the Cistercians!
    2
  6315. The actual monks actually only drink a much weaker beer they prepare separately. Everything is for sale to support the monastery.
    2
  6316. Thanks so much - Working hard to produce solid content and humbled folks are finding it rewarding!
    2
  6317. Sorry but the book pile will only continue to grow as you hang around here ;)
    2
  6318. No, not really - we discussed it in the conversation episode though
    2
  6319. See the faq on my website ;)
    2
  6320. Ghent
    2
  6321. It's nonsense from a historical perspective - scholars have a firm grasp of the development in medieval France and Spain
    2
  6322. It's not really my place to offer definitive interpretations of Scripture though by the time Proverbs was written alchemy was still centuries in the future. My guess there is that it's just a reference to good old fashioned gold.
    2
  6323. Check out my video on the cathars to find out. Though I'm more in the skeptical camp on all this cathar stuff.
    2
  6324. nail on the head. Yes, Spinoza was deeply influenced by Ibn Ezra.
    2
  6325. Yeah this video isn't exactly introductory level
    2
  6326. Really need to make that mirror of Floron episode...
    2
  6327. Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Check out the rest of the channel!
    2
  6328. Good question!
    2
  6329. Guess you're still watching
    2
  6330. Currently playing ffvi
    2
  6331. Many thanks!
    2
  6332. Edutainment ;)
    2
  6333. Purdue is the.best
    2
  6334. That's not what any of these historical protocols call for
    2
  6335. This is literally following Paracelsus and other actual spagyrical perpetrations. What historical documents call for the method you describe?
    2
  6336. Hold on, did I make one?
    2
  6337.  @kheph777  that's just how all my uncles said it, being from Mississippi / the south the koh link makes sense !
    2
  6338. ...metaphorically
    2
  6339. Owls were just seen as unclean birds of prey that seems to be as simple as it is in the literature of the time
    2
  6340. I'm sure there's a German me out there somewhere
    2
  6341. Because spiritual alchemy is mostly modern made up nonsense
    2
  6342. we sure need it!
    2
  6343. \m/
    2
  6344. I have some burzum records. Him being a bigot, etc., doesn't mean he's not an important musician. Canceling the art because of the artist is just nonsense.
    2
  6345. It's a super cool name!
    2
  6346. whoop wrong comment - thanks!
    2
  6347. This algorithm is positively childish comparatively
    2
  6348. like alchemy it generated some nice secondary effects, e.g., new algebras but as for the rest...
    2
  6349. Many thanks!
    2
  6350. Curse the darkness or light a candle as they say
    2
  6351. Verily
    2
  6352. That stuff is toxic nonsense
    2
  6353. Thanks!
    2
  6354. Paracelsus and alchemy generally is just a gold mine for metal band names
    2
  6355. yeah, kinda. Scholem thought so.
    2
  6356. The texts never make this clear, at least as far as I know.
    2
  6357. dog
    2
  6358. Glad it's useful as an introduction - there is so much more literature to explore, though. Hope you stick around!
    2
  6359. Recently I've been listening to a lot of chiptune
    2
  6360. Check the comments for the link!
    2
  6361. You are probably correct :)
    2
  6362.  @ThunderboltWisdom  checked it with headphone and didn't hear anything either
    2
  6363. One name? Paracelsus had like five: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, aka Paracelsus
    2
  6364. The term Lucifer doesn't occur in the original text
    2
  6365. Link in the comments!
    2
  6366.  @THE_OG_DEMMON  ok, recently made up nonsense.
    2
  6367. It's honestly hard for me to take it very seriously mostly because of how terrible the grammar is.
    2
  6368. A wild juggalo appears
    2
  6369. Pesachim 111b
    2
  6370. I mean the regular gospels have that too, tbh
    2
  6371. Very appreciated!
    2
  6372. Yep, Sam is wonderful!
    2
  6373. Nah it's a false etymology
    2
  6374. But WAIT there's more!
    2
  6375. I don't really work in 20th century stuff too much but I have them around here somewhere. But yes, two copies because I had a seminar and totally marked one up.
    2
  6376. It just doesn't interest me for a range of reasons. After about 1850 I don't find much of occultism of much interest.
    2
  6377. like every building
    2
  6378. For sure - thanks for watching!
    2
  6379. 𒌑𒀀𒈾𒈨𒊒 - anamiru
    2
  6380. Glad you enjoy it!
    2
  6381. Might have another pazuzu amulet - contact me
    2
  6382. Paimon is more famouser
    2
  6383. That's leitch's argument
    2
  6384. huh?
    2
  6385. I don't know of any academic channels like that. Would love one!
    2
  6386. Will probably get around to it!
    2
  6387. This isn't considered apocrypha, the 7 books of the apocrypha are in Catholic Bibles and 1 Enoch is in Ethiopian Bibles.
    2
  6388. It's right here
    2
  6389. The ' tablets of Thoth the atlantean" are not related historically to the text discussed in this episode
    2
  6390. Yep, probably. And it's cheap and easy to write on.
    2
  6391. Welcome aboard!
    2
  6392. I even have a Corpus Hermeticum II episode in the wings before the seminar!
    2
  6393. Thanks!
    2
  6394. Wonderful!
    2
  6395. Probably not, more probably a regional warlord.
    2
  6396. I'm guessing you did watch the whole video.
    2
  6397. Yep, at some point!
    2
  6398. Totes
    2
  6399. I used too and plan to again - I especially love the sbl!
    2
  6400.  @gnickthegnome1981  of course not ! Would be happy to meet folks !
    2
  6401. No idea - I'll contact youtube about it. This is also a video I think I will remake at some point in the future as well.
    2
  6402. It was mentioned in a book about codes I got from the library
    2
  6403. Hope you're well, friend!
    2
  6404. There are great options out there these days !
    2
  6405.  @Hells_Chance  lucid absinthe is a great place to start and pretty available all over.
    2
  6406. Thanks and glad you found the channel! Re: Links with Vedic texts - there are, but not until the modern period. By the Occult turn in the 19th century there are lots of contacts with Indic texts though the evidence doesn't support much in the way of contact prior to then.
    2
  6407. I'm just an academic - thanks for the kind words!
    2
  6408. Coming up in a future episode!
    2
  6409. Exactly
    2
  6410. Yep, fake abuse made the news and real abuse was brushed under the rug.
    2
  6411. Sure, Earl is wonderful
    2
  6412. @fitaddiction 369 check out the faq on my website for the answer
    2
  6413. Best alt title, imagining Ben Shapiro as an Orthodox icon, g-d forbid
    2
  6414. Maybe at some point
    2
  6415. He's not medieval and yes, I have a 14 part seminar on him.
    2
  6416.  @pentegarn1  much better story than "broke leg....then died."
    2
  6417. Just like there were incubi and succubi among the Romans it appears they were similar distributions of such being among the Babylonians, hence the male and female Liliths
    2
  6418. You too - thanks !
    2
  6419. turns out you cant separate the two, sorry not sorry
    2
  6420. Yeah the Hebrew is odd too - clearly being stretched to make the pun work
    2
  6421. Yeah, it's a pity that the origin is so clearly anti-semitic. However, words change, etc., I don't think that modern wiccans, etc., are somehow inherently anti-semitic by using a term any more than people who say "HIP HIP Hurray!" are.
    2
  6422. Jute cord is wonderful for making a bird's nest, imho
    2
  6423. I can confirm that that almost certainly did not happen
    2
  6424. Glad you like them!
    2
  6425. Something like that ;)
    2
  6426. Dog snoring
    2
  6427. Absolutely
    2
  6428. Also, ROIGHT!
    2
  6429. Not sure what you mean here?
    2
  6430. There really isn't anything such as the "Greater Key"
    2
  6431. We'll, he did have an affair with at least one of his patients so.... there's that
    2
  6432. Suuuuuure...
    2
  6433. Yep, seems like a workable solution
    2
  6434. Not quite sure how that could confirm such thing
    2
  6435. But Scotus was clear that it was conceptual and not ontological
    2
  6436. Thanks, James! I do plan to get to the Picatrix!
    2
  6437. Thanks for the donation!
    2
  6438. definitely was
    2
  6439. Gotta get rid of fascism somehow
    2
  6440. Most Jewish people would have basically no idea about much of this stuff. Kabbalah, at least at this level of obscurity, remains just that.
    2
  6441. Thanks, Julia!
    2
  6442. Or at least weird ones
    2
  6443. Do it
    2
  6444. It's an interesting theory but I think it's for actually making one invisible - pretty common spell really
    2
  6445. Yep, an Aquarius...whatever that means ;)
    2
  6446. Not yet, but there is so little historical evidence there really isn't much to say.
    2
  6447.  @kheph777  It could be, but again, I can't imagine that line of thinking coming from a Kabbalist who, at least in my experience, are really picky about just that sort of thing. Also, depending on the dialect, an ayin and an aleph would sound different and, especially in Germany, a patach and a kamatz would also sound different.
    2
  6448. I think it's the difference of him being among Jews and gentiles
    2
  6449. Like I said in the episode, between 2-5 people produced this document. The "crazy person" hypothesis doesn't work.
    2
  6450. William Blake's Newton
    2
  6451. Yep -> Rolfson, Helen. List of the Perfect by Hadewijch of Antwerp in Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Translations from Monastic Sources (1988). 5:4 (1988): 277-87.
    2
  6452. If can find a joke anywhere then the joke might be....
    2
  6453. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just made up....on both accounts.
    2
  6454. That ante-Nicene set, tho
    2
  6455. The woman is anonymous
    2
  6456. Maybe but it's paywalled and invite only
    2
  6457. Same
    2
  6458. Nope, that's correct. See Aristotle's conception of the "crystalline spheres"
    2
  6459. Nothing jumps out but they are a common trope for filth and death - " the worm that never dies"
    2
  6460. I'm not at all offended - I just mean the channel to be a visual medium.
    2
  6461. "rampage of appreciation" - nice turn of phrase!
    2
  6462. Cool demons go low wattage cw
    2
  6463. Have you read his works?
    2
  6464. I n d e e d
    2
  6465. I have 50 in my home right now, stacked on my table.
    2
  6466. Good advice!
    2
  6467. Yep, institutional pederasty was part and parcel of ancient Greek life.
    2
  6468. That's centuries later in the Zohar
    2
  6469. The SY is so vague that I think anyone can find what they are looking for in the text. What surprises me is how often people don't realize there just isn't one text.
    2
  6470. Really fantastic scholar - it was great chatting with her on this topic!
    2
  6471. Aliens are far more likely. Aliens probably exist and will likely never visit here.
    2
  6472. Thanks, Ken!
    2
  6473. It's all just kinda Platonism.
    2
  6474. Mayhaps
    2
  6475. :)
    2
  6476. Leg day or bust
    2
  6477. Yep, I think it's my favorite spell or 'experimenta' in the text!
    2
  6478. Thanks - hope you guys are well!
    2
  6479. Pareidolia isn't historical evidence. Have any mss of the Fama prior to those c. 1610 discovered by Carlos Gilly been found? Otherwise there's just no evidence for the existence of the Rosicrucians prior to 1614. Also, I didn't solicit medical advice.
    2
  6480. Thanks - some neat stuff in there!
    2
  6481. I have. I'm doubtful.
    2
  6482. Similar in a sense but also really different
    2
  6483. Big library and much more accessible than people think.
    2
  6484. American here ;)
    2
  6485. yah
    2
  6486.  @olggbot  not as often as I used to, sadly. I miss it!
    2
  6487. Did I?
    2
  6488. Just nonsense, sadly
    2
  6489. No, despite much desire for there to be for some reason
    2
  6490. Welcome and thanks!
    2
  6491. Yep, nothing I can do about the ads sadly.
    2
  6492. Maxwell's equations
    2
  6493. I don't think anywhere, that is, Hinduism is a world away from all of this mythology
    2
  6494. I think they would have agree on all that 'real wisdom and knowledge' first and they really, really don't.
    2
  6495. Monotheists as much as believing in a trinity is monotheism
    2
  6496. Absinthe dripper
    2
  6497. ​ @SobekLOTFC  but seriously I'd love to hear a Coptic audio book of it
    2
  6498.  @gerryjamesedwards1227  agree, I'm Jewish and still feel the music to be powerfully beautiful
    2
  6499. I can't so much speak for the Kybalion but the CH is often difficult to follow given that it survives in such a fragmentary form. But, some secondary literature will certainly help put things into context.
    2
  6500. The Klein edition is good but doesn't translate the Latin unlike Peterson.
    2
  6501. You'd think but no
    2
  6502.  @mutabore7  I've never actually seen a real historical source for this quote - I'm fairly confident it's made up.
    2
  6503. Japanese puzzle boxes :)
    2
  6504. Good, old-fashioned making up stuff
    2
  6505. Yeah, that's philosophy talk
    2
  6506. Thanks for watching!
    2
  6507. That's Agrippa!
    2
  6508. If only we knew what he looked like!
    2
  6509. Yeah, it's the best guess but there are several version including the famous "fat" Paracelsus. I don't think any of them are regarded as true to life.
    2
  6510. Do it ;)
    2
  6511. Nah
    2
  6512. Yeah there's a page where there's only a single sentence and the rest is references / notes - that's a good sign !
    2
  6513.  @mdlahey3874  ah Guillaume postel!
    2
  6514. Oh I'm definitely not
    2
  6515. Demons
    2
  6516. That's dem good drugz
    2
  6517. Verily!
    2
  6518. Thank you, Paul. Your encouragement really does mean a lot to me.
    2
  6519. Welcome!
    2
  6520. The Kaplan translation is totally fine. For non-specialists I would go with it.
    2
  6521. That translation is non-academic and incomplete.
    2
  6522. They're Japanese Puzzle Boxes, love these things!
    2
  6523. Or a dog snoring
    2
  6524. Yep, you're correct
    2
  6525. Impressed by your work as well - while I'm not a practitioner of any kind, I try to stay abreast of what's going on in that world. Very innovative and interesting work!
    2
  6526. One of the cool perks is having a chance to chat with such fascinating people!
    2
  6527. It certainly could be. Of course I'm reminded of Crowley " take wine and strange drugs" but I wonder what Spare's position on such substances would be for sigil magic.
    2
  6528. It's real ! On the store tab of the channel!
    2
  6529. Who knows? But some of them are truly archaic.
    2
  6530. Many thanks!
    2
  6531. I'm not a rabbi, just to be clear
    2
  6532. Call them, email them and let them lnow
    2
  6533. The kabbalah wasn't invented until the 13th century
    2
  6534. Also, congrats on your 4 months sober, well done!
    2
  6535. That would be groovy - I've studied with him here and there but a sustained chat would be awesome!
    2
  6536. True on the band names :)
    2
  6537. Yhvh is a mythological character. His followers had and didn't have a problem the MLK sacrifice
    2
  6538. Honestly, I just find those periods so much more interesting.
    2
  6539. It's true at least in the thumbnails case
    2
  6540. This is a visual show not a podcast
    2
  6541. You have to be correct here. It would be such an interesting project to do a material analysis of this magic. I don't have the Greek texts handy so I'm not sure about the exact wording, it could certainly be an idiom of some kind. If I happen upon the Greek doing further research I'll check that one out and report back!
    2
  6542. I can't see why not. Why, do you see a problem with sharing such experiences?
    2
  6543. Aside from the cycle of prayers that were common at the time, I don't now of any specific meditations. At least not prior to the 17th century, perhaps!
    2
  6544. Aurora borealis?!
    2
  6545. Geschichte als Schlachtbank
    2
  6546. Thanks for your generosity!
    2
  6547. Yep
    2
  6548. Verily!
    2
  6549. Thank you kindly
    2
  6550. TOUCHDOWN!
    2
  6551. Ted - Would be great to catch up! Been a decade of so, I think.
    2
  6552. Like trying to turn the sun off or like kefka from ff vi
    2
  6553. Many thanks ( for the support and beating back the elder ones ) - gut shabbes !
    2
  6554. Yep
    2
  6555. The "redemption through sin" stuff is so, so badly misunderstood - The phrase "מצוה הבאה בעבירה" just basically doesn't appear in any of the known Sabbatean works, it isn't part of the Sabbatean corruption of Lurianic Kabbalistic ideas, and literally doesn't have that meaning in halakhah. Had Scholem not (provocatively) named that article that, the whole idea would have never gotten legs. Could it be then that anti-Semites can't read Hebrew, haven't read any actual Sabbatian texts and don't have a basic understanding of Jewish Law? No......
    2
  6556. I do, a bit! Dank je wel!
    2
  6557. I'm also definitely skeptical ;)
    2
  6558. Nope
    2
  6559. https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/474382
    2
  6560. I just used it because it was in the public domain - but it is funny when I hear the whole piece on the radio, etc.
    2
  6561. He did....though there's no go evidence that the "Mrs. Paterson" existed, and most scholars think she didn't.
    2
  6562.  @KaliFissure  or just made it up - he made up a lot of stories about his life that turned out to be....fiction, I guess you can call them
    2
  6563. Yep, this tradition is quite old. Dee is very much in it.
    2
  6564. for better.....or worse.
    2
  6565. Thanks for the kids and donation!
    2
  6566. I'm Paracelsus and welcome to jackass
    2
  6567. Thanks, friend. I try to give folks a little peek into my world but try to keep the content neutral and objective. Glad you appreciate it. Hope you are well!
    2
  6568. The kings of Edom, yes
    2
  6569. Hope the list helps the community and hope you are well, friend!
    2
  6570. I'm fairly certain that's not true, they were just making fruit etc
    2
  6571. Thanks so much for saying so and thanks for watching!
    2
  6572. smoking fascists?
    2
  6573.  @jennypendel301  Yep, ontology is a helluva thing.
    2
  6574. The Voynich MS was written over a century before Edward Kelley was born.
    2
  6575. There's no evidence for the existence of any witches
    2
  6576. They weren't doing any of that in actuality. That's the nightmare of it all
    2
  6577. Sorry to hear about your depression - it's hard for a lot of us these days! You can find the "table of contents of the Großschrift" here - https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fschrift - good luck, and from one content creator-educator to another, thanks for what you do!
    2
  6578. Yeah that's what happens when you apply roman mythological terms to a character in Jewish mythology
    2
  6579. Yep
    2
  6580. You should! Have an absinthe frappe, it's wonderful.
    2
  6581. Check out let's talk religion for sufism!
    2
  6582. yep!
    2
  6583. Many thanks!
    2
  6584. digging the diaeresis use and thanks for watching!
    2
  6585. Sure
    2
  6586. Called having a cold
    2
  6587. Neat - I hadn't heard that story before!
    2
  6588. Thanks, friend - glad the information was helpful and interesting!
    2
  6589. I haven't - what is it?
    2
  6590. Did you watch the whole video ?
    2
  6591. Yep it's Yiddish!
    2
  6592. It did, though weakly. England did a pretty 'good' job of dealing with heretics locally by secular law so the inquisition rarely needed to intervene.
    2
  6593. That's a bingo
    2
  6594. Yeah, we've gotten a few more since then ;)
    2
  6595. Try it again, seems to working on my end!
    2
  6596. Definitely the folks that believe it
    2
  6597. right?
    2
  6598. I haven't but hear good things
    2
  6599. Thanks again!
    2
  6600. Definitely not, f*ck the Templars and everyone like them
    2
  6601. See comments below
    2
  6602. Moon vs Sun beef, go!
    2
  6603. Thanks for the support!
    2
  6604. Having to one soon myself
    2
  6605. The interaction with Zoroastrianism is much later, after the 586 BCE deportation
    2
  6606. Did you watch to the end ?
    2
  6607. Moses Cordovero, though, tbh, I find his system the most convincing and prefer it for technical reasons to Luria. That said, I'm still not a believer in Kabbalah.
    2
  6608. Verily
    2
  6609. Yes, the Throndikes you can have. But, I'm still here for now. @TheModernHermeticist 
    2
  6610. Thanks, friend - welcome!
    2
  6611. Typically in the Greek though not in the Hebrew form.
    2
  6612. Thanks love kindly, friend!
    2
  6613. I don't but I need to
    2
  6614. Ridiculous, sorry to hear it!
    2
  6615. Oh a shelf tour ! Yes, thought you were talking about the puzzle boxes !
    2
  6616. It is
    2
  6617. Modern Pernod absinthe or Pastis? Pastis is basically just an oil mix heavy on the star anise and lots of sugar. The absinthe isn't that great (artificial color, etc.) but it's certainly not just pastis.
    2
  6618.  @samuelshepard  Yep, they make absinthe. It's ok but only ok.
    2
  6619. t r v e
    2
  6620. It's amazing where this text shows up these days!
    2
  6621. Glad you found it insightful!
    2
  6622. Thanks, David - sequel out later today!
    2
  6623. Me neither, and yes, people forget that more technological process was made in the Middle Ages than during Roman Empire.
    2
  6624. I wonder how many people were Paracelsus or John Dee etc in a past life
    2
  6625. I think I was using him as a Christian to help Christians better situate these Jewish folks. Oh yeah, teacher of Irenaeus too, probably.
    2
  6626. This episode only goes to Crowley
    2
  6627. esoteric connection? Probably - Frankism can burn in a dumpster somewhere. I'll get to it later.
    2
  6628. Yep, I was there!
    2
  6629. Go ask Bernard
    2
  6630. Never
    2
  6631. Huh?
    2
  6632. Thanks - and yeah, Willy B - of course Willy B :)
    2
  6633. True enough....never glib with the Gib
    2
  6634. Always helps when I get to chat with a true expert in the field
    2
  6635. Bumbos in hamtramck mi or the Lamplighter in Memphis tn
    2
  6636. Yeah, I thought about that. What we touch and how that touch travels beyond us is just so strange to ponder.
    2
  6637. That's a far toss for trash
    2
  6638. In European art she is
    2
  6639. Don't I wish!
    2
  6640. All on the channel - I need to make a playlist
    2
  6641. You're right, the Venn diagram here is strong!
    2
  6642. Yep via Paypal - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel thanks!
    2
  6643. Yep, it isn't getting good reviews :( I'll see it at some point.
    2
  6644. Here's your opportunity!
    2
  6645. Me neither.
    2
  6646. Oh nice let me know what I get wrong later !
    2
  6647. Yep, the one image and reference I forgot!
    2
  6648. The Daniel Matt translation
    2
  6649. I did an episode on HP and the occult. The answer? Not much
    2
  6650. Sorry, you're stuck like chuck.
    2
  6651. If you win it, I'll ship it anywhere gratis.
    2
  6652.  @Bildgesmythe  verily!
    2
  6653. Because they had brown skin and maybe had their hair in dreadlocks sometimes - you've seen Maya folks these days right?
    2
  6654. I don't think so - they were never really "hidden" just kinda lost historically speaking
    2
  6655. Absolutely - I'd enjoy that ! Let's be in touch !
    2
  6656. According to him, he complete it in China in the early 20th century.
    2
  6657. You're conflating the end of the day third book and the content of the fourh
    2
  6658. Metatron's cousin
    2
  6659. This weekend!
    2
  6660. ha - I think someone else pointed that out too....always happy to be fact-checked!
    2
  6661. Me too, neat angel!
    2
  6662. The abgrund or groundless ground of being
    2
  6663. Ish
    2
  6664. And I owe you a call !
    2
  6665. Nope not at all
    2
  6666. its from the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
    2
  6667. We're not making a full translation of his letters, sadly
    2
  6668. Thank you for watching!
    2
  6669. Yep, I noted that. Origenism was condemned, not so much Origen.
    2
  6670. Thanks for saying so. I think we can have modern values and classic sensibilities at the same time. I really try to cherish the things I love and when dealing with one of these bottles - which are probably numbered in less than 100 in the world - I tried to show the respect I think it deserved.
    2
  6671. He doesn't get married until he gets to Italy.
    2
  6672. Also jars, it's all part of the larger solomonic cycle
    2
  6673. Yep
    2
  6674. Interesting observation!
    2
  6675. I think so - glad you do too!
    2
  6676. Maybe, but even the concept of the maggid only really seems to show up in the life of Joseph Caro and there the maggid isn't specific to him - it's the spiritual form of the Mishnah itself...whatever that means.
    2
  6677. That's not what the historical texts state - they are literally rapacious
    2
  6678. Yeah, it's pretty pot and kettle seems to me
    2
  6679. I'm dreadfully sorry this happened to you. That those closest to us are the most likely to harm us is more horrible than any diabolical conspiracy.
    2
  6680. Think you'll dig this one!
    2
  6681. Nothing that's not made up nonsense
    2
  6682. Look, I'm the most pro-buried treasure guy you'll find - pure gooney - but these guys are just silly.
    2
  6683. Always so glad to see you come up in the comment, friend! It's an interesting position with a couple of caveats. The first is that this is only true for the 'pneumatics' which Valentinus seemed to have thought were a small fraction of the population, unlike the psychics and hylists. Would that mean that the Abramelin is also only functional for some fraction of the population? Secondly, the Valentinian salvation is always mediated by the ekklesia (heavenly ad mundane) especially via the rite of baptism ex officio. Now, I'm not sure this implies a kinda of "nulla extra ecclesiam salus" but it seems substantial different from the self-initiation of the Abramelin. Just some thoughts. Also - I owe you an email! Look for it soon.
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  6684.  @kheph777  Ah - the old question of the relationship of Judaism and Gnosticism: I really I had any idea about that, that question remains utterly perplexing to me. Though, about those parallels, do you think they are the result of historical causation or something more like homologies resulting from other philosophical/religious assumptions? I always think about biological structural homologies where such parallels can point to common biological ancestry but many times don't. For instance the eye, which seems so similar in so many creatures seems to actually have evolved in over 50 different, independent cases. For me, at least, baring a direct connection in the historical records I tend to be skeptical of any connection - but perhaps that's the luxury of the academic.
    2
  6685. Fun episode, this one
    2
  6686. And I appreciate your kind words and support!
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  6687. Nope and this is an academic channel
    2
  6688. Thank you for learning with me!
    2
  6689. I'd put my money on it
    2
  6690. Thanks and Welcome!
    2
  6691. I don't think you need an academic background to be a solid and serious scholar. But, if you're not seeing quotations from Hebrew books (including mostly untranslated Hebrew books) about the klippot - I'd probably be skeptical.
    2
  6692. If you noticed it then it's not...
    2
  6693. Sounds downright reasonable :)
    2
  6694. Sefaria
    2
  6695. I don't have much interest in mythology apologetics.
    2
  6696. Yep and nope.
    2
  6697. Dropping a lapel mic just doesn't have the same effect, does it?
    2
  6698. There's no juniper though
    2
  6699. What a kind and thoughtful comment - many thanks!
    2
  6700. Thank you so much and thanks so much for supporting the channel!
    2
  6701. I did
    2
  6702.  @chuckhainsworth4801  Ah - I see. Yes, the Guide is, in all honesty, a bit of a slog. I worked through it again last year and it wasn't any easier. Important, yes, needs an editor, also yes.
    2
  6703. Confused - that makes two of us.
    2
  6704. Samael warm up final boss, then yourself as the final boss.
    2
  6705. I will lay down my bones among the rocks and roots \m/
    2
  6706.  @ErForce1  Also a huge Weakling fan - the holy grail of black metal vinyl!
    2
  6707. Yep - in the works at some point. One thing about this channel is that I won't be running out of content any time soon!
    2
  6708. Totally right - thanks for the correction!
    2
  6709. It's ok if you do, glad you love conic sections too !
    2
  6710. It's mentioned in the episode.
    2
  6711. Sorry bout that
    2
  6712. Yep
    2
  6713. a bissel yid'deoni
    2
  6714. Thanks so much - working on the second episode now!
    2
  6715. Yep, the Roman inquisition
    2
  6716. All strikes me a looney toons
    2
  6717. A later verse in Deut. also includes sorcerers.
    2
  6718. Both, it's a medieval text and preserved quite well
    2
  6719. Nah, too modern for this channel. Check out Angela's Symposium for that content and tell her I sent you!
    2
  6720. Sadly not much - there are a few sessions in TFR (and in the recent Klein edition) mostly featuring Raphael. Dee ultimately felt that the sessions - which lasted much longer than those with Kelly - were basically unsuccessful. Though, I'm not sure what would have constituted success considering that basically nothing that came out of the Kelly sessions came to pass.
    2
  6721. Glad you enjoyed it
    2
  6722. Nah, had a serious cold and sore throat recording this
    2
  6723. Liber aba / book 4 by Crowley
    2
  6724. Check out my faq for this answer
    2
  6725. It really filled the whole room - like letting a genie out of the bottle!
    2
  6726. We don't really cover contemporary topics on this channel.
    2
  6727. He kinda invented modern historiography...just goes to show how easy it is to be forgotten.
    2
  6728. I can't deny
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  6729. Where do you think he got it ? She's a century earlier ;)
    2
  6730. Thanks - I try to make them visually engaging but without sacrificing any of the information which is primarily audio. Hopefully they can function as both fun videos but also podcasts.
    2
  6731. I have a whole episode about it!
    2
  6732. I'm pretty sure it's safe....
    2
  6733. Thanks for the kind words and encouragement!
    2
  6734. Such kindness - many thanks !
    2
  6735. Definitely not Orthodox
    2
  6736. Nah
    2
  6737. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  6738. Most are bearded kartir is unusual in this way.
    2
  6739. Welcome!
    2
  6740. Guessing you didn't watch the video?
    2
  6741. and?
    2
  6742. The Greek text never mentions the term "ouroboros"
    2
  6743. Though it certainly could be - great guess!
    2
  6744. Nope, the initial set of 50 bowls actually sold out to patrons first so I commissioned another 50 to make them more publicly available
    2
  6745. Welcome aboard!
    2
  6746. Alfie Solomons as Baruch Spinoza
    2
  6747. Should does not mean does not
    2
  6748. Because this was a not uncommon late classical literary trope as I mentioned in the episode
    2
  6749. "It's like this and like that and like this and like that and on...."
    2
  6750. As you like !
    2
  6751. I'm going to need a timestamp or something.
    2
  6752. The parades is certainly that
    2
  6753. I did one - check https://youtu.be/JYmnphCgzjw
    2
  6754. It Rage
    2
  6755. Yep
    2
  6756. But it was Kelly 'revealing' all this - maybe bespoke for Dee's intellectual tastes
    2
  6757. Nah, tons - so many most can't get jobs
    2
  6758. You can always reach me via my website!
    2
  6759. "I was talking about felicity since before it was cool"
    2
  6760.  @TheModernHermeticist  That's a great idea. I didn't mention it, but this is all also bound up with the divine kiss in the Zohar too.
    2
  6761. Many thanks!
    2
  6762. pistis sophia
    2
  6763. Glad you found us - welcome!
    2
  6764. Yep that's more middle platonism
    2
  6765. Yeshu is said to be boiling in his excrement in the Talmud - if that's Jesus is another question
    2
  6766. To be clear - there is no connection between Egyptian ḥkꜣ "heka(w)" and Greek Hecate
    2
  6767. Jewish and yahudi comes from the tribe Yehudah
    2
  6768. True story brill money is that real money!
    2
  6769. Or just be an abyss dragon
    2
  6770. There wasn't a snowflakes chance in hell anyone at nicaea would have even considered this document legitimate
    2
  6771. Thanks - and welcome!
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  6772.  @ricardopenamcknight6407  No, far from it. Aristotle's physics are totally foreign to modern readers. From Aristotle, all entities have built in 'ends' or teloi which must be 'activated' through efficient causation informed through their material natural by an outside agent such that they tend towards their teloi in accordance to nature. Of course, mind, being purely formal must be activated by an outside intelligence, here the 'agent' or 'active' intellect. Aristotle has no concept of 'energy' at all, especially not as 'the measurement in joules of the ability to do work.'
    2
  6773.  @BeesWaxMinder  Next Friday at 4pm Eastern !
    2
  6774. yes
    2
  6775. There might be, as I mention in this episode.
    2
  6776. I hope so - I'd love that to be the case!
    2
  6777. seems like
    2
  6778. If I can help anyone with a newborn I'll call that a success
    2
  6779. Interesting I'm very sure I would never recommend anyone read the kybalion
    2
  6780. Xenophanes vibes
    2
  6781. It was a pretty widely view actually. He just applied it to God's act of creation and that got him in trouble
    2
  6782. Welcome!
    2
  6783. *וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ לִפְנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים וַתִּמָּלֵא הָאָרֶץ *חָמָס
    2
  6784. That was a pretty obscure goonies joke though
    2
  6785. Of course, I wasn't serious. The large pharmaceutical chemists have long since tested every single compound in these herbs. If anything were profitable it was long have been extracted and put to use to make money and maybe cure people, have a distant second side effect of capitalism
    2
  6786. Japanese puzzle boxes!
    2
  6787. Check out the faq on my website!
    2
  6788. There is virtually no evidence of there being "real witches" at all - the 40-60k killed were overwhelmingly innocent Christian women.
    2
  6789. Future episode!
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  6790. Yep, we have Ill (Inter-Library Loan) here in the states and most libraries make use of it!
    2
  6791. The real question
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  6792. I agree re: Pythagoras and Fibonacci and Descartes is such an interesting subject. I'll be doing a video on the possible influence of non-rational concepts and ideas on the foundations of rationalism, so look for that one sometime soonish. Thanks for watching and I hope the content continues to interest you. I'll be keeping up a section on the esoteric in philosophy so stay tuned!
    2
  6793. Any chance you can read them?
    2
  6794. Tiny ? It's three long volumes in Aramaic and 12 in English
    2
  6795. You kinda just did ;)
    2
  6796. Daemones, yes. But not fallen angels. Both kinds lived up there though.
    2
  6797. The crowning achievement of Greek philosophy. Also nonsense.
    2
  6798.  @risinglogosbear1208  failed messiah.
    2
  6799.  @risinglogosbear1208  of course, I have deep respect for Christianity and Christians, however. Hence episodes like this !
    2
  6800. It's so bad. I'm translating the whole mirror of Lilith spell for a short follow up episode and there are some sentences which are just shockingly bad, almost Latinate gibberish.
    2
  6801. Check out the faq on my website
    2
  6802. Nope
    2
  6803. Fan of the noab new Oxford annotated bible with apocrypha
    2
  6804. Many thanks for this kind support!
    2
  6805. Thanks for this !
    2
  6806. 💯
    2
  6807.  @shedmeraked  Thanks so much for asking - you can donate via paypal via this link - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel - Again, I appreciate the support, thanks so much!
    2
  6808. would love to have him!
    2
  6809. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for your continued support of the channel!
    2
  6810. And I really appreciate that.
    2
  6811. Mosin - "because sometimes fascists hide behind things"
    2
  6812. Well, I don't see any necromancers around...
    2
  6813. More probably for profit but maybe the lulz too
    2
  6814. I will when it exists
    2
  6815. Not really in the European context prior to c. 1690
    2
  6816. Thanks for the reference, I'll have to look him up. Sounds like a great future episode!
    2
  6817.  @TheModernHermeticist  I really have no idea how it happened - I feel like all of this is a real experiment. Hope we can work together again soon - our convo was a blast - I only get that kind of euphoric mental buzz after a solid game of Go or something.
    2
  6818. This is not a reliable, scholarly translation.
    2
  6819. Thomas George Allen and the old Faulkner one are both considered solid.
    2
  6820. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for hanging out!
    2
  6821. Probably not
    2
  6822. If I were, I wouldn't say so here ;)
    2
  6823. No, it's from Galenic-Avicennan medicine as I mentioned in the video.
    2
  6824. Veneration and worship are very tricky topics at this time. See the previous lectures on dulia and latria. In general, it's possible but definitely not any veneration of planetary intelligences for Agrippa.
    2
  6825. Nah using the tanach to tell the future
    2
  6826. Pantocrater!
    2
  6827. I doubt it because Odin was probably originally *Wōðanaz
    2
  6828. If you watch them backwards, they are actually cupcake recipes ;)
    2
  6829. Or just many prayers
    2
  6830. https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/shop/p/1616-the-alchemical-and-medical-works-of-paracelsus
    2
  6831. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  6832. I mean as much as there is one to do, this episode kinda did it.
    2
  6833. Yeah, it does happen but I think those are exceptions that prove the rule.
    2
  6834. God makes them do so
    2
  6835. Really pre-existing chaos but yep!
    2
  6836. dog snoring
    2
  6837. Not yet
    2
  6838. Long live Farrokh Bulsara!
    2
  6839. Late second temple period - it's mentioned once in the NT
    2
  6840. Ridiculous
    2
  6841. She's amazing!
    2
  6842. I don't think it's necessary - many seem to be non-noetic - though I will say that many allegedly non-noetic mystical experiences tend to get noetic content smuggled in afterwards. From a philosophical perspective there is just more to chew on, so to speak, with the noetic ones.
    2
  6843. The emerald tablet is a real historical text, the emerald tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is made up nonsense
    2
  6844. Might be a while then ;)
    2
  6845. It's from Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 - thanks for the kind words!
    2
  6846. Yes. A famous one, though not for me.
    2
  6847.  @gavinshriamneon  I think you are confusing גמליאל and גמיאל
    2
  6848. Thanks! Glad you are liking my content!
    2
  6849. The Wicked Bible!
    2
  6850. If only
    2
  6851. Thanks - it's an interesting idea and I don't know of anyone really doing anything like that. Something to think about.
    2
  6852. Thanks for the kind comment and I wish you the best on your work. Hope this content is useful for a wide range folks!
    2
  6853. Heraclitus, that old wierdo :)
    2
  6854. Contact me!
    2
  6855. Yep, though it's more pop-history.
    2
  6856. Yeah, it's rather uncalligraphic
    1
  6857. The standard edition is 806 pages or so
    1
  6858. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  6859. Nah
    1
  6860. That's a very possible given the influence of this text.
    1
  6861. What's most interesting is that most scholars ( and me) take it that this school originated in heterodox Jewish circles
    1
  6862. We have a couple
    1
  6863. You've probably heard them snoring in the background
    1
  6864. בַּעַל isn't בְּלִיַּעַל‎
    1
  6865. He doesn't strike me as an occultist or crypto
    1
  6866. Hard pass
    1
  6867. pronounced Dee-ty, of course.
    1
  6868. Guelphs and Ghibellines
    1
  6869. Thanks for the support, Angela! Everyone go sub to Angela's channel to get her over 100k today!
    1
  6870. Thanks !
    1
  6871. The word for 'side' and 'rib' are the same in Hebrew. It isn't a mistranslation just a question of how you want to render it.
    1
  6872. Yeah I have no power over the ads - sorry for the idiotic nonsense!
    1
  6873. It's an interesting thesis but I'm not really convinced.
    1
  6874. I tend to prefer the more philosophically oriented material - I really enjoyed making the episode on the derveni papyrus
    1
  6875. Thanks for this kind donation!
    1
  6876. I have a few episodes on the beguines
    1
  6877. me too!
    1
  6878. Nada
    1
  6879. Stupid YT censorship
    1
  6880. Probably more their position on apostolic poverty, local opposition to the Gregorian Reforms and a land grab by northern French nobility.
    1
  6881. Who knows why ???
    1
  6882. Very well could be
    1
  6883. Coming this Friday
    1
  6884. Totally agree
    1
  6885. I haven't
    1
  6886. Did an episode on Thoth and learned about it from the Aussies.
    1
  6887. Yes
    1
  6888. Nah, just in fragments and took scholars time to work through.....still working through it.
    1
  6889. Thanks!
    1
  6890. Kinda late
    1
  6891. @Alex Grey I think you are mistaken
    1
  6892. Thanks for watching and commenting, friend!
    1
  6893. Thanks - hope you find my content worthwhile!
    1
  6894. Nope
    1
  6895.  @danterosati  It's true - we don't get something like what we now call a 'meta-ethics' in the Shurrupak text and the text seems to be largely appealing to prudence or, perhaps, the principle of utility. Though, from a pov of moral repugnance we could keep in mind Aristotle's view of 'natural slavery.' But no, I would agree something like the Instructions is no where nearly as developed as Plato (though, even Plato's meta-ethics while metaphysically interesting remains very vague and un-developed) and Aristotle. But, as far as I read it, still reasoning about ethics which, for me, would allow for me to group it as a philosophical text. No a very sophisticated one, to be sure and very much to your point.
    1
  6896.  @danterosati  Glad you enjoy the content - I also really appreciate SHWEP as well. I'm still learning the ropes and your support really means a lot!
    1
  6897.  @danterosati  Yeah, it's a great approach. I also chose to do youtube for access to visual material as well. So much esotericism is visual and having that option seemed important to me. I'm just happy that scholarly material about western esotericism is making its way to the public - that certainly wasn't the case even five years ago. I haven't seen it yet but, you know what? I'll check it out tonight! Glad you also liked A Dark Song - I really thought that one captured so much so well!
    1
  6898. I wonder if they will ever know the shade I throw their way?
    1
  6899. No, for the same reason I don't call it the "Christian World" when I refer to the European 'Middle Ages'
    1
  6900. Store tab on the channel!
    1
  6901. Thanks for watching!
    1
  6902. https://books.google.com/books/about/Antipalus_Maleficiorum.html?id=Kj1lAAAAcAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false
    1
  6903. Glad you like my content!
    1
  6904. You might have the cart before the horse, rosicrucian-wise
    1
  6905. It's utter nonsense
    1
  6906. yep.
    1
  6907. Watch my episode on moloch
    1
  6908. There was - Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio
    1
  6909. I have a whole episode about it
    1
  6910. Do you have any primary sources to back this up?
    1
  6911. https://books.google.com/books/about/Opera_ea_quae_ad_adinventam_ab_ipso_arte.html?id=NxhCAAAAcAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false
    1
  6912. Thanks - let me know what you think!
    1
  6913. He became famous for that 'coon-skin' hats while he was in France.
    1
  6914. I'm going to go with both are.
    1
  6915. Mayhaps!
    1
  6916. תודה רבה !
    1
  6917. The Canaanite storm god or the goetia demon?
    1
  6918. me too, though more of a scotus man, myself.
    1
  6919. Yeah, was a tout
    1
  6920. There's coloring highlighting?
    1
  6921. That's a much later, apocalyptic period notion
    1
  6922. You're thinking of the second language, the liber loagaeth remains largely unstudied
    1
  6923. Thanks for your support - I'll be creating that translation video sometime this summer!
    1
  6924. Thank you for your service
    1
  6925. Islamic alchemy was definitely about changing metals as well.
    1
  6926. Why?
    1
  6927. The alchemists were by no means fools. Spiritual alchemy doesn't really exist in the west until the 17th century. I have content about it.
    1
  6928. 💯
    1
  6929. Along with half a dozen kinds of beer too, that just as special?
    1
  6930. 13 the century Spain and France
    1
  6931.  @simban00  not to my knowledge
    1
  6932. Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks!
    1
  6933.  @peterjeffers2284  is that esoterica related somehow?
    1
  6934. I agree, that's a topic I will come around to.
    1
  6935. I'll go with double-blind testing, peer review, and quantitive longitudinal analysis.
    1
  6936. Mentioned in the video and in the description
    1
  6937. On the faq on my website
    1
  6938. Not all of them were celibate. But the ones that were probably justified it along the lines of an extreme dedication to ritual purity.
    1
  6939. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  6940. No idea, not an expert on thelema
    1
  6941. ​ @jmp01a24 nah, too new
    1
  6942. This was all written before his apostasy
    1
  6943. Thanks for the contribution!
    1
  6944. Uhhhhh....kinda?
    1
  6945. I mean the witch cult thesis was clearly wrong even back in the day
    1
  6946. Yeah that witch cult in Europe stuff has done tons of damage - it's evidence-free nonsense
    1
  6947. There's nothing I own that isn't already digitized.
    1
  6948. Philosophical definitions round these parts ;) perceptions counter to being.
    1
  6949. We're shooting for a $50-60 price point per bottle.
    1
  6950. y e s
    1
  6951. Thanks for the visit
    1
  6952. Mayhaps
    1
  6953. It kinda is.
    1
  6954. Thanks - I'm going to keep up the effort and see what happens. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
    1
  6955. Could be - do you have a source for this idea prior to the 7th century ce?
    1
  6956. That's the most expectable thing imaginable
    1
  6957. Nah
    1
  6958. Welcome! Hope you find my content interesting!
    1
  6959. Huh?
    1
  6960. I think most of them have been digitized
    1
  6961. Wow, you added water, right?
    1
  6962. Or, perhaps, an April fool's joke?!
    1
  6963. All of the volumes are available digitally for free
    1
  6964. Re: India - Like in early-modern Europe
    1
  6965. Lot more brill books
    1
  6966. I got some bad news for you
    1
  6967. It's mythology like all scripture
    1
  6968. Glad you like them!
    1
  6969. Yes, this
    1
  6970. That's a Bingo!
    1
  6971. Why, might I ask?
    1
  6972. Thanks for watching and for your thoughtful comment!
    1
  6973. You can't
    1
  6974. Probably just doesn't exist
    1
  6975. Evidence?
    1
  6976. Awesome!
    1
  6977. Dark castle maybe
    1
  6978. I'm going with no
    1
  6979. Yep, reach out to them, call them and let them know
    1
  6980. I mean, people pray and that demonstrably doesn't work either.
    1
  6981. You're thinking mandaenism?
    1
  6982. It's both digitized and there are fantastic translations already
    1
  6983. Nope, I imagine the Roman government couldn't care less about them
    1
  6984. There wasn't any and Akhenaten wasn't either
    1
  6985. Lots of people "answer" to imaginary beings, e.g., gods of various kinds
    1
  6986. A crucifix probably
    1
  6987. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Your support is profoundly appreciated!
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  6988. Could be, all the editors I've read can't make heads or tails of it
    1
  6989. Sure you will - other academics
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  6990. Yep.
    1
  6991. I supposed before their bris Lilith can get them, that's the pshat so far as I can tell.
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  6992. That's the period of tamei following a girl birth in the Torah.
    1
  6993. Yep, such an interesting figure!
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  6994. Very kind of you - thanks !
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  6995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Keys_of_Basil_Valentine#/media/File:Musaeum_Hermeticum_1678_II._Clavis_AQ30_Key_2.tif
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  6996. Wow! Many thanks!
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  6997. My thanks !
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  6998. The funny thing is that I got a VPN sponsor thing the day I finished this episode!
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  6999. Not the same book.
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  7000. Many thanks!
    1
  7001. But it doesn't follow the well known features of glossolalia
    1
  7002. Not yet but eventually
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  7003. If it goes to sale I'll let you know
    1
  7004. Glad to help - thanks for watching!
    1
  7005. depends on the kind of vampire or werewolf
    1
  7006. Kinda a lot
    1
  7007. Suuuuuuure
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  7008.  @josiahdrake8631  Pretty sure Joe Smith just made all that up, pious fraud and all that.
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  7009.  @josiahdrake8631  Not much beyond it's interesting that Smith had a long standing interest in the occult. He died with a solomonic talisman on him.
    1
  7010.  @josiahdrake8631  The Book of Mormon? Yeah, totally made up.
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  7011. Nope, not yet
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  7012. More than a chance!
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  7013. Thanks so much for the kind donation!
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  7014. Collob with Let's Talk Religion!
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  7015. Yes. Verily
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  7016. Link? I wasn't aware there was a full translation.
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  7017. Yep
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  7018. Of course, but why? Why does the Talmud come to that conclusion. Let's not quote things out of context.
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  7019. Why do you get that sense?
    1
  7020. Does this channel cover much 20th century topics?
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  7021. Yep will come back to the one another year
    1
  7022. no mud, no lotus, they say.
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  7023. Maybe a few years down the line!
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  7024. Many thanks - I'm just happy that our work is reaching people and making a difference
    1
  7025. Nailed it
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  7026. You can be both, friend!
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  7027. Thanks, friend!
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  7028. Yep
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  7029. Thanks!
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  7030. No, they claimed to have bishops, etc. Have you read the "Cathars in question" volume?
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  7031. It's a solid theory they were chanted and typically where I land as well. Though, I'm skeptical of the 'Cathar' material though. There is good recent scholarship calling into question to what degree they existed, especially as an organized movement of any size, at all. Deborah Shulevitz has a good article summarizing the various positions and I tend to land on the skeptical side, myself.
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  7032.  @fractaled3129  Yep, I know those documents and doubt they represent anything like "Catharism." I'm pretty convinced by folks like R. I. Moore that 'Catharism' basically existed primarily in the mind of the Cistercians and then the Dominicans (much like the 'gnostics' and the 'witches' of the early modern period in the mind's of Irenaeus and the Demonologists, respectively). Claire Taylor's position is a bit closer to the 'traditional' one if you want to take a look at that. @TheModernHermeticist - what do you think?
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  7033. Thanks for the kind donation - it's Chopin's nocturne no 1
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  7034. Yes'm
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  7035. Cuneiform isn't a language and Egyptian was also of great renaissance interest
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  7036. Basic features like the centrality of astrology are ejected from the texts in his edition. That alone is huge.
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  7037. It maybe a page from a copy of the Sefer Raziel I have. Timestamp?
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  7038. I doubt such seizures ever really happened
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  7039. Many thanks !
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  7040. Many many thanks
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  7041. How is John Dee "Middle Eastern"?
    1
  7042. necessary
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  7043. I'm not familiar with that book though I tend to focus more on historical alchemy rather than modern interpretations. Glad you found the episode interesting!
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  7044. Don't worry - my sorties into the 20th will be few and far between ;)
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  7045. Yeah, but made up in antiquity
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  7046. It's a book and the scholarly consensus of it's general meaning
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  7047. And the voice was once of the 10 things first created!
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  7048. Newton's translate is based on the Latin vulgate, which isn't all that reliable
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  7049.  @MrTubeityourself  I don't think so, try again.
    1
  7050. Aqua regia dissolving gold
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  7051. Got a whole episode about it
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  7052. Yes, to the Templar connection, absolutely.
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  7053. y e p
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  7054. Yep, at some point!
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  7055.  @jdewit8148  oh way, way before that.
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  7056. There's no connection with Ishtar and Lilith - they're distinct and radically different mythological entities - most of this episode is on pre- Israelite sources
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  7057. Thanks for this kind donation!
    1
  7058. answered in other comments
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  7059. But birth via ear? Here we get both
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  7060. There really isn't such a thing - just a huge array of clavicula solomonis literature.
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  7061. 👍
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  7062. Wait
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  7063. Thanks!
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  7064. Eh, messianic logic basically always ends in death and destruction.
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  7065. Yeah eventually frank just isn't really philosophically or theologically that interesting
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  7066. Side effect of meeting in person - definitely not just some random yt comment- Hope you get some rest and recuperation!
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  7067. You too!
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  7068. Thanks so much for watching - It was fun (and kinda stressful) to make!
    1
  7069. Prexactly
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  7070. Ha - yeah I recall trying to find stuff when I was a kid in the 90's even then it was really difficult. Thank goodness for google books and archive.org!
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  7071. You know, I kinda think that too now that you say it. With like laggy dial up.
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  7072. Yeah there's a distant connection for sure
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  7073. Definitely a zeppelin show ;)
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  7074. This? Nah this is mostly nummedal
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  7075. I wonder what the Zohar says about all that?
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  7076. Would you have to perform dulia or latria to a demon in that process?
    1
  7077. Demons in bottles
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  7078. Thanks 👍
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  7079. Thanks for the support!
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  7080. Didn't watch the whole video, huh?
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  7081. Welcome!
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  7082. I'm glad I have no idea about contemporary romcons ;)
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  7083. Immortality wasn't so much in the cards for European alchemists like it was for Chinese alchemists. But some did allegedly live very long lives though I think the opposite was probably true
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  7084. Many thanks - I appreciate it!
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  7085. Yep there's all manner of legends about it
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  7086. It isn't recommended to use gloves handling antiquarian books
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  7087. Charlesworth - The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
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  7088. Thoth is thousands of years older than Jesus
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  7089. There's no linguistic connection between the two
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  7090. nah
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  7091. Yeah, but that's isn't kabbalah.
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  7092. typology?
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  7093. Could be, although it's interesting in that blessing he also wants the same malakh to bless his sons as well. So, it's an odd fit in a way.
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  7094. Probably not. They probably share a similar genetic origin.
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  7095. Yeah. The imagery is probably from Roman coinage
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  7096. I may get to them, still not sure. But very unlikely for the rest.
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  7097. Yep, Agrippa a big impact on Dee, Bruno, etc
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  7098. You absolutely deserve it - I really enjoy your content and if you ever want to work together please let me know !
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  7099. That sounds like a helluva ride!
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  7100. It could be but I think that would get so granular and people would not be interested in something of that depth
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  7101. Thanks for saying so, friend!
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  7102. ;)
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  7103. Hyle
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  7104. See that FAQ on my website
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  7105. I doubt this story happened at all
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  7106. Loeb classics - the one shown is..... pricey
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  7107. I'm pretty sure I know people who go to IKEA just to eat there
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  7108. Esoteriga is my yoghurt brand
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  7109. I made a whole episode about it!
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  7110.  @lilizugaming2672  Happens to the best of us :)
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  7111. Much appreciated!
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  7112. Probably Tzadok but no one knows for sure
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  7113. Nah it's John still
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  7114. The truth of the matter is that I don't know the first thing about cocktails
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  7115. Looking forward myself to the fall of the house of usher!
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  7116. In full, probably not. Find the selections in a good medieval philosophy textbook. Read that, then dive deeper if interested.
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  7117. Might do you one better
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  7118. gaps in the manuscript where we don't know what the text says.
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  7119. You’re welcome 😊
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  7120. Thanks so much for this kind donation!
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  7121. Anything you can do I can do meta
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  7122. Yep, just this year! Thanks so much and I'm looking forward to learning with everyone!
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  7123. Thanks so much, friend! Hope you are well!
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  7124. Only the lower seven can be associated with anything. Some of it is latter Kabbalists, a lot of it is later non-Jewish occultists playing fast and loose with the system.
    1
  7125. ?
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  7126. Thanks for all your thoughtful comments!
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  7127. Have fun!
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  7128. Yeah I wonder if I will do some more episodes on movies? The intro music is from one of the Nocturnes of Chopin, I thought it had a nice, dreamy feel to it. As for the end of wisdom - no idea. I think I may agree with Kohelet about it all.
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  7129. Eh
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  7130. I've never heard of such a thing in the mythology
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  7131. Thanks for the list - such great films!
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  7132. I don't think so.
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  7133. \m/
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  7134. we are
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  7135. I didn't catch it - worth it ?
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  7136. Welcome!
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  7137. Thanks !
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  7138. Check my sources for yourself
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  7139. Yep ! How have you been, friend?
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  7140. No idea, that's stuff from the kybalion, a 20th century text with no historical connections to hermetic texts or alchemy
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  7141. Dylan Burns
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  7142. Already did that one
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  7143. Right on!
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  7144. Thanks for saying so, friend!
    1
  7145. Eh
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  7146. Sounds as made up as anything else
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  7147. Thank you very much!
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  7148. Nah
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  7149. Racist occult books? I mean it's hard to find one that's not.
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  7150. F o r R e a l
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  7151. Thanks for this!
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  7152. It's true - as long as you've having fun, so be it. No kink-shaming and no non-kink shaming.
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  7153. Glad I'm #teamlacan ;)
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  7154. Edgey
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  7155. It's mixed to biased.
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  7156. Don't think so but...
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  7157. who knows....I'm just happy to have the platform I do!
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  7158. I sadly just don't have the time to do one myself :(
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  7159. Not many people know much about any of this, Jewish or otherwise
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  7160. Ha! What kind of absinthe is it?
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  7161. It's pretty hard to find and a lot of it is still in manuscript or at least Latin. I'll be doing an episode about it at some point.
    1
  7162. Maybe next Christmas!
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  7163. Or a dog snoring;)
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  7164.  @lucslade6700  yeah reality is often like that
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  7165. Hope not
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  7166. Yes....yes he did.
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  7167. There is currently no English translation.
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  7168. It's as early as the Zohar for sure
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  7169. Many thanks to you!
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  7170. That's an idea - Though, I always wince when I use the term (even more so than "gnostic"). I also need to be better and managing these playlists.
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  7171. Nsh that's pure evil
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  7172. Probably not, it's mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat (at least in middle Egyptian) in Egyptian so pretty far from אמת
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  7173. Coming out in a few hours! Thanks for viewing and your thoughtful comments!
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  7174. Good catch - I typically try to use Islamicate but slipped up there!
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  7175. Probably calamus. No reason to think it was cannabis, linguistic false friend.
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  7176. Maybe, but it's very late for the channel.
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  7177. Makes total sense. Copies these days of the first and second editions start in the six figures
    1
  7178. ...kinda
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  7179. I doubt it, I'm skeptical even we have "consciousness," whatever that is
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  7180. I show the book where this argument is made
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  7181. This is an interesting but ahistorical conception of alchemy and kabbalah.
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  7182. Via my website - thanks !
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  7183. Focusing mostly on Europe there but yes a real luminary
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  7184. Not yet sometime this summer hopefully!
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  7185. I just read it and I'm fine. Doing an episode about it this week
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  7186. Glad you think so!
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  7187. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
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  7188. the most powerful drug of all - religion
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  7189. Citation?
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  7190. None
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  7191.  @danieltalis7711  sources?
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  7192. Huh?
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  7193. Sleeeeeeeepy Thorndyke
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  7194. I would recommend the Jade line of absinthes. They are pricey but well worth it.
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  7195. Me and you both on all your points
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  7196. Thanks for the super and supporting the channel!
    1
  7197. Yeah though I think she needed something a touch stronger
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  7198. They won't because cowards with power never accept accountability.
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  7199. I suspect just like other meat....I mean, it's literally a calf or person or whathaveyou.
    1
  7200. y e p
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  7201. Hope so! Thanks for watching!
    1
  7202. Reform ain't revolution
    1
  7203. Good point!
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  7204. I address the " crazy person" hypothesis in the episode. In short, no - it's the work of at least 2-5 people
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  7205. I take the material history seriously, not Dee, Kelley or any of these supposed revelations.
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  7206. Glad it was helpful!
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  7207. "lair" my wife calls it
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  7208. Agree
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  7209. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  7210. Read / listen again
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  7211. Levitov argued this in the 80s. It isn't.
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  7212. Sadly, no.
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  7213. e d g e y
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  7214. Also the name of a principle Mandaean Religious text, the Ginza Rabba - same shoresh as genizah :)
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  7215. Thanks for saying so - check out my other content!
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  7216. Nope
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  7217. Thanks!
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  7218. I mention that theory and why most scholars reject it.
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  7219.  @bruceplenderleith838  yep, 19th century arguments now refuted by modern scholarship
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  7220.  @bruceplenderleith838  not really at all - I mean have you read the literature in the description?
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  7221. Many thanks for the Super Thanks!
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  7222. Wonderful - thanks so saying so!
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  7223. Got those in spades
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  7224. "occult hipster cred" - I need that merit badge - Thanks for being an early adopter!
    1
  7225. And?
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  7226. Thanks, brother!
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  7227. The Grimoire? Already did!
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  7228. Yeah but demons, etc. Aren't real
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  7229. You can marry without the consent of the people being married (as much as women of that time could consent to anything really) but you can and most often do baptisms at least in the Catholic Church without the consent of infants because well infants.
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  7230. I discuss his translation and commentary at the end of the episode.
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  7231. You do
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  7232. This was a very common book size known as Duodecimo or 12°
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  7233. Probably not. But it was written on Roman show leather, love it.
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  7234. No, she's a myth
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  7235.  @BroonParker  updated the link
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  7236. Yep - we still have some spots! If you are interested please contact reservations@argosdestinations.com ASAP!
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  7237. ḏḥwtj
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  7238. I mentioned that it's the work of several scribes not one person
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  7239. That's a great question I haven't seen any documentation of it but it's surprising that it's not mentioned if it's available
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  7240. Many thanks and thank you especially for your generous donation to the channel!
    1
  7241. Depends on what you want to study. Hebrew for kabbalah, Greek for neo-platonism, Latin for medieval / early modern
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  7242. Tons of great content on the tubes!
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  7243. Read the title more carefully.
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  7244. Yep, tracks
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  7245. :) Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
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  7246. Thanks for the support!
    1
  7247. like Shai Hulud?
    1
  7248. That's more of a 19th century revision of what alchemy was historically.
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  7249. I agree, I feel super blessed. Thanks for watching!
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  7250. Dr. Carlos Gilly
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  7251. Lots of people would have been. Even with the robust legal protections in place and the legal presumption of innocence it still ruined and immiserated thousands of lives
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  7252. It was a fun episode to make and I enjoy Lovediddy's stuff!
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  7253. Definitely not
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  7254. They didn't
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  7255. right?
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  7256. for real though
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  7257. Awesome - stick around!
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  7258. Really late medieval, fixism - aside from its place in thomism - was out of style by the early modern period. Not that the alchemists ever cared about this kinda stuff
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  7259. y e s ;)
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  7260. On the faq on my website ;)
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  7261. I'm sympathetic to this view though in this case we have independent corroboration of much of these practices and beliefs in both other texts and testimony importantly not arrived at through torture. So, I think the 1389 condemnation is probably describing actual belief and practice.
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  7262. \m/
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  7263. Glad you enjoy it!
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  7264. Nice!
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  7265. Yes, absolutely terrible and shameful.
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  7266.  @NicoleAntoinette03  why?
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  7267. I have
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  7268. trve metal can only be found on wax cylinders
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  7269. Kinda up your alley, I think !
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  7270. Maybe, but I'd like to see evidence for such a claim
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  7271. Hey, if you got a great argument I'd love to see it in Nous
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  7272. The via peepee
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  7273. Some probably.
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  7274. definitely not
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  7275. That's kinda the show around here ;)
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  7276. Yeah his stuff is great
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  7277. Sadly, you're probably correct
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  7278. Thanks for watching!
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  7279. Yep
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  7280. Really? I don't got no bombast? :)
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  7281.  @b5904  sure but not sure I am
    1
  7282. Well, he had it written for him. But, yes.
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  7283. Also just totally gives the lie to all the fairy tales we were told about the 'safety' of academia - hope you're well, friend!
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  7284. That's great ! Which university and course?
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  7285. No
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  7286. Glitch, see comments below
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  7287. It's the Masoretic layout for the song
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  7288. No, just really densely packed
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  7289. Welcome!
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  7290. Try unsubscribing then resubscribing along with hitting the notification bell - thanks so much !
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  7291. Not so sure
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  7292. Interesting, it's the exact same setup
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  7293. very much zero
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  7294. Literally Samuel is conjured from there, and it tracks to other, similar motions. He's just a bad translator
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  7295. Glad you enjoyed it - especially coming from such a grimiore connoisseur!
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  7296. Very kind !
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  7297. In the comments below
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  7298. yep, get's a mention at the end.
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  7299. Barber and Lambert, the two major anglophone traditionalists, aren't at all skeptical of the counter church position. French scholars are very similar. They literally have chapters on 'church hierarchy' etc. Schmidt certainty assumes the counter-church narrative.
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  7300. Many thanks!
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  7301. Goat
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  7302. It's always interesting to me what strikes folks as a standout episode - thanks for watching!
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  7303. Thanks for the support!
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  7304. Yep!
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  7305. Nah
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  7306. His argument is fundamentally unsound but of decisive importance just the same
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  7307. I'm a principles guy. And, while I won't die on this hill I won't be bullied by bad corporate either. This kind of thing is one of the thousand cuts that may well destroy our ability to create valuable content with any sense of character and I'd rather resist it than just roll over.
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  7308. It's still in beta but it'd be great to get it!
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  7309. There's no linguistic connection between these words
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  7310. "internal alchemy" didn't really exist until the 18th century really - Thomas was opposed to alchemy for theological reasons primarily
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  7311. In the comments and in the description
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  7312. The ergot theory has long been disproven
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  7313. No, not really. Why would it be?
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  7314. Does this text ever once mention Jesus?
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  7315. I didn't know that - wonderfully interesting!
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  7316. Thanks so much, look for more alchemy content coming soon (this Friday, even!)
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  7317. The Meyer edition is the standard these days!
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  7318. Library sales are the ticket
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  7319. So says the feminists !
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  7320. It would be great if this were just the equivalent to mid-20th century French philosophy, just ancient Egytpian.
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  7321. Can't please everyone
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  7322. Just means you have an honest rav
    1
  7323. What was the reasoning of the posek?
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  7324. He was a pretty strident anti-fascist
    1
  7325. Eh, everyone knows by now
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  7326. Yep, though that's much further in time than the 7th century where I stopped this episode
    1
  7327. On a good day about half that on average
    1
  7328. Or that everyone does everything sometimes
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  7329. Seems reasonable to me, could also be taboo inversion
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  7330. Don't do much modern stuff.
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  7331. I'm also technically mis-pronouncing it. I'm using the Hebrew, בַּעַל, but pronouncing the Ayin with a glottal stop and not a voiced pharyngeal fricative.
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  7332. see comment below.
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  7333. nah
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  7334. Thanks for the kind donation!
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  7335. Feel better soon !
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  7336. The Scott translation is a little dated now but yep, the French in general have such great editions.
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  7337. This is a great question - I'll ask!
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  7338. Interesting - what text?
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  7339. Glad you're enjoyed it!
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  7340. Sure
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  7341. mayhaps!
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  7342. yes. exactly.
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  7343. Glad you found it interesting!
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  7344. Not really
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  7345. Hope it was worth the wait!
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  7346. Totally agree - Christian magic is super interesting and I'll be doing future videos on it as well.
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  7347. Hopefully solid content - thanks for watching!
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  7348. I want evidence for claims, that's it. Earlier inscriptions don't make Yahweh, Moses, etc., Any less mythology.
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  7349. Takyon
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  7350. Thanks so much Paul!
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  7351. Deal ;)
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  7352. I very much doubt that he studied under Gamliel
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  7353. Many thanks for this generous donation to the channel - Happy New Year!
    1
  7354. I'm so terribly sorry to hear this
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  7355. Burning the herbs destroys any essential oils and thus rendering the distillation fruitless. No historical protocols call for this and I don't know where this nonsense idea came from
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  7356. No historical source I know of calls for all this. I'm consulting actual historical texts in Latin and German not contemporary made up stuff.
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  7357. Really? I'd enjoy hearing your take.
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  7358. Cenobites
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  7359. It can be, the wine base is often not kosher and sometimes they are filtered using horse hair but there isn't anything absinthe that isn't kosher. Lucid has a OU hechsher.
    1
  7360. Very sus
    1
  7361. Tis!
    1
  7362. ?
    1
  7363. Absolutely - Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  7364. A lot of them are being scanned - check the holding institution to see if they are
    1
  7365. Thanks, Friend!
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  7366. I don't have a po box but the paypal fees are very miniscule in the end. Thanks for considering supporting the channel!
    1
  7367. Yeah, those are on aisle 5
    1
  7368. No one doubts the massacres just the existence of a Cathar church
    1
  7369. If I had one I'd use it
    1
  7370. Prexactly
    1
  7371. Such a bummer
    1
  7372. It's the fruitlessness of the task plus the overpowering reality of greed - he reaches too far, but I do think he has a real handle on the psychology of sin in the Middle ages
    1
  7373. It's a zinger
    1
  7374. Coincidence but interesting. Also the four worlds isn't actually four.
    1
  7375. I don't know the first thing about that
    1
  7376. Welcome aboard!
    1
  7377. It's be great to be in touch with him!
    1
  7378. I bet he'd teach you....
    1
  7379. I can't but I'm happy to send you a link with all my scripts. Just contact me via my website.
    1
  7380. True story!
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  7381. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
    1
  7382. Or just early death
    1
  7383. High, ~65%
    1
  7384. I doubt it.
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  7385. There's debate in the occult community as to whether he 1 really even understood the ritual at all and 2 whether he actually started it given 1 much less finished it in the wastes of China - I don't have a dog in this fight
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  7386. Probably not any time soon, too late.
    1
  7387. Thanks so much !
    1
  7388. Yep, that's some speculation
    1
  7389. Yep, somewhere in the queue!
    1
  7390. Nope
    1
  7391. and also you!
    1
  7392. Welcome aboard!
    1
  7393. there actually is a esoteric master named kimmy gibbler
    1
  7394. Lucifer is Christian mythology.
    1
  7395. No, not really - interesting topic however!
    1
  7396. Reprints or translation?
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  7397. Seek ye, find ye
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  7398. yep
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  7399. ha!
    1
  7400. That stuff is conspiracy theory nonsense
    1
  7401. Did you watch till the end?
    1
  7402. Nope.
    1
  7403.  @thedude4922  Apparently to manipulate angels into giving people magic powers.
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  7404. We have - lots !
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  7405. And coming up soon!
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  7406. Why not just "night" ? Layla is a common name in Arabic, for instance.
    1
  7407. Skeptic - check out my FAQ on my website for a fuller answer!
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  7408. Glad you find the information interesting, Helen. Thanks very much also for your kind donation to support the work of the channel!
    1
  7409. Yep, ancient people were smarter than we them give credit for
    1
  7410. Interesting!
    1
  7411. angel writing from the Sefer Raziel - I have an episode about it
    1
  7412. Thanks Helen, hope you are well!
    1
  7413. It's mostly platonism via Philo and stoicism
    1
  7414. Well, you won :) I just need you to contact me via my website to arrange shipping - Congrats!
    1
  7415. Thanks....a little nerdy, but hell.
    1
  7416. see....I thought it was funny.
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  7417. I'm guessing you didn't actually watch the video
    1
  7418. I said in the video I don't suffer from and am not depressed
    1
  7419. The sefirot as emanations didn't yet exist when the sy was written
    1
  7420. Not sure about that attack specifically, but the Germans in the tale are a real caricature. Still a nice story though.
    1
  7421. Just did a whole interview with on the channel last week
    1
  7422. Yeah that stuff is toxic toxic toxic
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  7423. Not yet
    1
  7424. Many
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  7425. and notice how late that is in alchemical history.
    1
  7426. It's on the channel
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  7427. My pleasure, thanks for watching!
    1
  7428. Going to try!
    1
  7429. uhhh....
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  7430. Maybe at some point. Thinking about accepting crypto too. Also, thinking about maybe doing some notebooks for merch....maybe
    1
  7431. Chanoch = Enoch?
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  7432. what a great word :) hope you're well, friend!
    1
  7433. The argument is far from "undeniable," in fact, it's just flatly unsound as shown in the formalization in this episode. He might be correct, but not on the grounds of the actual arguments he provides.
    1
  7434.  @huckfinn257  that's hilarious!
    1
  7435. The excommunicated didn't decay
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  7436. Hi Helen!
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  7437.  @stevebisset1522  I'm no expert of Chinese alchemy / religious philosophy so I can't judge.
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  7438. This edition is already scanned and can be seen online!
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  7439. ....if you say so :)
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  7440. Marc has some for sale. I think it goes for like 130 € / 50 ml.
    1
  7441. I think they have a song about that!
    1
  7442. It's kinda obscure but this book was copied and has modern editions. So, yeah it's not totally obscure.
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  7443. Many thanks for this generous donation!
    1
  7444. Where is the word demonic?
    1
  7445.  @marcushaynes4495  You might want to pay better attention.
    1
  7446.  @marcushaynes4495  I want you to read the title of the Episode along with the description carefully again and get back to me.
    1
  7447.  @belowthetamaracks  Yep, I'm waiting on my 1 year old to wake up any moment now!
    1
  7448. Around here? A lot of people know what gold teachers are. But I'm married - thanks for asking!
    1
  7449. Yep, I'd say so.
    1
  7450. It's an Absinthe Brouilleur Auto Verseur
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  7451.  @beauwhitlock5034  tons of great memories in both those places! If you are at the lamp and see chuck tell him I said hey!
    1
  7452. Maybe but that's not what the enochian records say to do, not that I have a dig in the fight
    1
  7453. I have a flamel episode
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  7454. Thanks for this donation!
    1
  7455. IA IA gibbler fhatgn !
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  7456. Always up for podcasts as long as they do conspiracy theories or bigoted content!
    1
  7457. Thanks so much for the kind words!
    1
  7458. If you say so
    1
  7459. Yep
    1
  7460. Yep, I've done a ton of brewing with brett, lacto, etc., great stuff! Long live Gueuze!
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  7461. I don't even understand what taking any of this literally would mean
    1
  7462. Any talk of 'dimensions' outside of a purely mathematical context is almost certainly nonsense.
    1
  7463. Your grandpa was Boomhauer?
    1
  7464. If you could put your comments in one nest it would prevent the comment section from being flooded which will trigger your comments being deleted
    1
  7465. I mean this stuff is just so interesting it's not too hard to be a little silly ;)
    1
  7466. At least 2-5 scribes worked on it
    1
  7467. Lisa fagin Davis' epigraphic analysis confirmed currier's analysis and expands it. This isn't the work of one person, artistic or insane or both.
    1
  7468. Read the title of the video once more ;)
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  7469.  @danielfarmer2248  I'll try again. You might want to read the Title again - "Zohar on Esther Fragment - The Battle of the Shekhinah against the Klippot (April Fools 2022)"
    1
  7470. We have, on several occasions
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  7471. That's seems to be part of it, along with making sure they couldn't use alchemy as a way of rising up against the Roman Empire again.
    1
  7472. Welcome - I cover the nature of mercury in some of my other alchemy episodes. Check those out!
    1
  7473. Interesting question!
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  7474. Mississippi
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  7475. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  7476. Which one? It was Cleopatra VII that died with Mark Antony :)
    1
  7477. As I point out in the episode it's the work of between 2-5 people
    1
  7478. I mean, they kinda took at lot literally.
    1
  7479. No, only the monetization of that specific video.
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  7480. Nope
    1
  7481. I'm not sure who that is.....but maybe?
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  7482. Nah
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  7483. Just the Greek original of the text
    1
  7484. soon...bli neder
    1
  7485. Chopin's Nocturne N 1
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  7486. Thanks for watching and keeping up the moral support - means a ton to me!
    1
  7487. Heresy is a confessional term and this is an academic channel.
    1
  7488. Much appreciated!
    1
  7489. Yep, they were still printing philosophy in Fraktur until the 60s I think
    1
  7490. It's isn't, it's from the translation in the Egyptian Literature volume.
    1
  7491. Yep - you contacted Millsaps yet?
    1
  7492. As a father of small children, I totally agree.
    1
  7493. I haven't seen any indications that it still does, but I'm not a Mayanist or do any current anthropological work.
    1
  7494. It's ridiculous. How do they expect us to make content - which makes money for them - when they are harassing us with nonsense.
    1
  7495. Always trying to get better!
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  7496. Shouldn't be hard
    1
  7497. Thanks! I'll look into it!
    1
  7498. soon....ish
    1
  7499. I'm not doing any of these scans - they're all coming from archive.org or Google books
    1
  7500. Thanks, Dante - looking forward to producing the seminar and your comments!
    1
  7501. Ughh....I'm not going in for any "killing" slogans. Maybe #brilltheshill
    1
  7502. This video is years old
    1
  7503. Good question
    1
  7504. With the proper credentials and a research proposal, yes probably.
    1
  7505. Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
    1
  7506. Many thanks for your generous support!
    1
  7507. Glad you thought so!
    1
  7508. Thanks for watching!
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  7509. None
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  7510. I'm just happy to finally have a platform to teach this material - thanks so much for viewing it!
    1
  7511. Rad - what kind of music?
    1
  7512. No idea - I see this one
    1
  7513. Trust me, even my own comments vanish from time to time
    1
  7514. Thanks so much - should be an exciting August! What do you mean here by 'practice'? It's an interesting question - I just want to make sure I'm understanding it correctly.
    1
  7515. ok but outdated
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  7516. I don't think they are encoded any more than just being cryptic, in Hebrew/Aramaic, etc - which was plenty in most times. If they were encrypted in any way they would be gibberish given how corrupt the textual tradition is.
    1
  7517. Probably not anytime soon
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  7518. Personal intuition is rubbish without scholarly consensus as a north star.
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  7519. Latin
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  7520. That guy is such a turd burger
    1
  7521. Thanks Paul - I'm just glad there are lots of folks out there making content.
    1
  7522. That estimation of Agrippa is purely idiotic. He is well worth studying.
    1
  7523. I have an episode on it - most likely a mediaeval fraud.
    1
  7524. It's statistically unlike nonsense or glossolalia
    1
  7525. Thanks!
    1
  7526. Thanks Paul - any day now!
    1
  7527. Glad you like the content!
    1
  7528. yes
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  7529. Yay - academic publishing!
    1
  7530. Paracelcore
    1
  7531. In this case it's just damage in the text.
    1
  7532. I honestly don't think it was totally a con. I also don't think it was spirits or angels, etc.
    1
  7533. They are Japanese puzzle boxes. I have a small collection.
    1
  7534. We're working on that!
    1
  7535. No idea
    1
  7536. I basically agree with van der Poel but Lehrich's work is a bit polarizing. I re-read it and came away still not sure what his thesis was.
    1
  7537. When I get around to merch I'll be sure to make one!
    1
  7538. Not any time soon
    1
  7539. Yep - I collect all kinds of things.
    1
  7540. Thanks for the donation!
    1
  7541. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  7542. The shomer emunim
    1
  7543. Appreciate it!
    1
  7544. Many thanks!
    1
  7545. Many thanks !
    1
  7546. The "systematic derailment of the senses" good stuff!
    1
  7547. I'm thinking both are equally unreal
    1
  7548. Yep.
    1
  7549. That's not an academic translation
    1
  7550. That sword story I think is more a Paracelsus thing.
    1
  7551. Probably shared MS tradition
    1
  7552. No idea - didn't see it
    1
  7553. You're welcome!
    1
  7554. It's very possible - Waldensian became a word for witch in French
    1
  7555. Thanks! Glad you are liking the content!
    1
  7556. Probably not much. I touched on him in my akephalos episode but that's probably all for now.
    1
  7557. Thank you kindly!
    1
  7558. Planning on it!
    1
  7559. Thank you!
    1
  7560. Yes. Yes, it does.
    1
  7561. He was always wrong for the right reasons.
    1
  7562. Huh? No idea what that means
    1
  7563. No idea
    1
  7564. No, sadly
    1
  7565. Maybe, but probably not. We don't do much 20th stuff around here.
    1
  7566. Yeah I don't get it either
    1
  7567. Do you have a historical source for this story?
    1
  7568. Yahweh Shredded
    1
  7569. huh?
    1
  7570. yep!
    1
  7571. Nope
    1
  7572. I don't much
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  7573. Yep!
    1
  7574. this
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  7575. https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/10/1/article-p1_1.xml?language=en
    1
  7576. That's my answer
    1
  7577. Kinda
    1
  7578. Great comment - Al-Hassan mentions 15 different MSS of the text including the ones you mention. I didn't want to to go into the compositional history of the text in the episode because it gets too much in the weeds for most viewers but it does seem that Robert of Chester was doing as much creating (or at least mixing texts together to form a composite) as doing a 1:1 translation of a singular Arabic text. I wonder if that's true for this translation of al-Khwarizmi's text? I haven't consulted it actually but I know an edition exists. And I think you are right - the actual 'chemical' sections haven't been discovered in Arabic to my knowledge but certainly they existed. The section reads too much like other Geberian alchemy to be otherwise. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
    1
  7579. Glad you enjoyed it !
    1
  7580. "theorized" is a strong word I think, "speculated" is probably more to the point. And, if they did - which is there is little evidence for - I would suspect just regular old medieval Christian devotion material. But I would take Jung's speculations as basically just that, lacking evidence to the contrary.
    1
  7581. I don't think anyone is taking them seriously - we only know about them precisely because of how outlandishly stupid they are
    1
  7582. They only exist in manuscripts.
    1
  7583. eh, couldn't care less.
    1
  7584. Yep, later Spanish inquisition
    1
  7585. I did, at least of Urizen
    1
  7586. Thanks so much for saying so - The Agrippa class has been a joy to teach. And, yes the next class will be on Hekhalot mysticism
    1
  7587. Thanks - will be doing more esotericism in philosophy episodes in the future so stay tuned for those!
    1
  7588. Thanks so much for saying - hope you check out my other content!
    1
  7589. They are very accessible with academic credentials - I don't really get this odd idea they are secret or sealed with the exception of some recent papal papers
    1
  7590. Be fun, doubt they would have me though
    1
  7591. No, different mythology
    1
  7592. Sure - I'd love to be in touch and admire his work. It'd be fun to do something alchemy with him!
    1
  7593. I'm so sorry to hear about your situation and glad my channel gave you an solace. Here's to wishing that 2022 will be better for you and us all!
    1
  7594. Oh I have a feeling of what he might say...
    1
  7595. Thanks!
    1
  7596. But the text makes it explicitly clear that isn't the case
    1
  7597. Thanks for being so kind!
    1
  7598. English gift - a surprise present German gift - poison false friends
    1
  7599. Oh I'm sure - looking forward to your thoughts!
    1
  7600. Not yet - sometime in the first half of this year
    1
  7601. Trust me, I don't want to make this kind of content and do my best to keep my own politics and agenda out of the content I create.
    1
  7602. Read the title again, carefully.
    1
  7603. Nope
    1
  7604. I agree about Hill House. Also best comma usage. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House , not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
    1
  7605. Definitely prefer Yahweh in this respect
    1
  7606. Yep, eventually
    1
  7607. It was a bad joke, but I couldn't not
    1
  7608. Some student was a tout
    1
  7609. Just a civilian :)
    1
  7610. The beard? Just time, a bit of trimming, and using whatever random (probably expensive...whoops) conditioner my partner has in the shower.
    1
  7611. Yep
    1
  7612. Yeah, everything is simple when you can't even read the original languages things are composed in. I find the people who think this stuff is simple are probably projecting.
    1
  7613. Mentioned in the video!
    1
  7614. Gets a mention!
    1
  7615. Taranto
    1
  7616.  @achka  ;) sorry !
    1
  7617. Alan Watts isn't really representative of the philosophical mainstream.
    1
  7618. Brill = $$$$$$$$
    1
  7619. You see the mansion the heavens gate folks dipped out of? That was 39 people. Josephus said there were 4000 Essenes - it's just a math game.
    1
  7620. That's a winner of a comment lol
    1
  7621. Why not both?
    1
  7622. Oh wow! So Happy to see this comment! I'm going to be remaking this video soon and i'd absolutely love to interview you about the topic! Could you please get in touch with me via my website?
    1
  7623. Yep, by the 17th century and Hasidisim all previous forms of mysticism are united into a rather wonky synthesis.
    1
  7624. I described in the video why I can't and don't
    1
  7625.  @elyknavillus777  No. His positions are nonsense.
    1
  7626.  @misdangered4326  l o l poor Eddie!
    1
  7627. There's no connection
    1
  7628.  @captvaghunter  sure
    1
  7629. Mayhaps!
    1
  7630. Thanks, Reyna - I enjoy your thoughtful content as well!
    1
  7631. I'm probably not publishing it in a journal, etc
    1
  7632. It randomly happens - no idea why
    1
  7633. Yep
    1
  7634. I don't think so, just more astrological symbolism
    1
  7635. DemoTic
    1
  7636. ?
    1
  7637. ^this....also let me know if it works so I can bet on your horse.
    1
  7638. Please do...and let me know if it works so I can bet on your horses.
    1
  7639. All in good time ;)
    1
  7640. My sincere thanks for your support!
    1
  7641. Doesn't exist yet ;)
    1
  7642. I apologize for my terrible Dutch!
    1
  7643. Eventually I would like to learn Dutch - I'd really love to spend some more time there!
    1
  7644. Yep, first session will go live Tuesday probably
    1
  7645. A 17th century English person who took Johann Weyer's 16th century joke too seriously
    1
  7646. all is platitudes
    1
  7647. I really don't like Foucault...for lots of reasons.
    1
  7648. I can get down with him early in his career as a structuralist. And even the later care of the self stuff is pretty good. But he's a methodological nightmare and all the soft power stuff was already trod over by the Frankfurt school in the '30s
    1
  7649. I did
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  7650. Yep, but not DVM - the translation of de arte isn't without problems as well
    1
  7651. HE'S ON FIRE! 🔥
    1
  7652. It's an academic channel
    1
  7653. Once of those "evidence free" types ?
    1
  7654. Yep it's a whole academic field and the whole purpose of this channel!
    1
  7655. Makes total sense to me
    1
  7656. Thanks so much for your support and your kind words! I also have some neat news coming up on that episode on the Abramelin operation!
    1
  7657. It's a Jewish phrase for people that were murdered unjustly
    1
  7658. I must have missed that reference and I couldn't figure it out either. I don't think anything like that is mentioned in the original text though the original is pretty taciturn about the actual magical effects one might expect. It was a great visual I thought. Any thoughts?
    1
  7659. Thanks! Glad you like it!
    1
  7660. First rodeo, huh?
    1
  7661. Thanks so much!
    1
  7662. Not to my knowledge. Raziel is said to have existed prior to the creation of the planets.
    1
  7663. Thanks so much for this generation
    1
  7664. Wud up tho' indeed
    1
  7665.  @corticallarvae  Oh I don't care one way or the other about the gods, but that damn Sesame Street records is the devil. Drinking whiskey out of skulls has nothing on hours of listening to it. I would happily drink whiskey from a skull rather than that.
    1
  7666. Nah, I agree it's unlikely
    1
  7667. Agree
    1
  7668. I did - it's the Liber Loagaeth
    1
  7669.  @thejordankeyes  Nope, it's the whole book. As for how's it the liquor, you may have to ask the angels.
    1
  7670.  @karsu  ah! Many thanks!
    1
  7671. Yep, check the shop !
    1
  7672. We don't really cover contemporary concepts - check out Angela's Symposium for that!
    1
  7673. From the art institute in Jerusalem
    1
  7674. I'm guessing @philosophytube
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  7675. Thank you for watching - hope you find the content rewarding!
    1
  7676. While it's possible they came to similar conclusions, there's no evidence of influence in either direction.
    1
  7677. It means "insert name here"
    1
  7678. Maybe, fun to make though
    1
  7679. I tend to like my absinthe w/o sugar but will try it with sugar at some point!
    1
  7680. Pilpul
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  7681. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  7682. Hoopoe
    1
  7683. The Instructions of Shurrupak are 400 years older, but yes. I actually teach both in my history of philosophy of classes.
    1
  7684. or at least interesting.
    1
  7685. and I'm so very thankful for the support!
    1
  7686. I'm not a rabbi, just an academic
    1
  7687. Thanks friend, and you and the brother are doing well!
    1
  7688. I tried to key the price to somewhere in the ball park of a graduate level seminar covering room, board, etc. A grad level summer seminar at University of Michigan where I am is $43,071 / 3 courses = $14,500. So this trip is a little north of that price but will cover not only nearly daily grad level instruction, but also everything else on the Being In Egypt side of things: tours, food, rooms, internal travel in Egypt, etc.
    1
  7689. "What is your innermost dominating, and deepest, most ethereal thought. " The thing I lost most forward to is never having to think again.
    1
  7690. Oh I don't have any desire to be enlightened, go to some higher realm, achieve any afterlife or anything like that - I'm just looking forward to ceasing to exist absolutely and in every respect.
    1
  7691. I decided to just present them in their original languages (or first generation translations) with a few translation into English - there are tons of translations online anyhow and I link to the standard academic translations in English and French.
    1
  7692. Nah, I mean the scripts are based on books which are already better. People should just read those.
    1
  7693. Ha! It's funny how much of an impact he had on Hermetic philosophy but also how, for many people, it seemed to have no impact at all.
    1
  7694. We never said accuracy in all cases
    1
  7695. I'm not sure the DSS scrolls are inherently better either. What we have is a mess and the DSS and LXX are parts of the puzzle of that mess
    1
  7696. Winthrop jr. Directly intervened in her case - fascinating stuff
    1
  7697. Trust me, it all makes a difference
    1
  7698. Who knows? The algorithm peers deep into our souls :)
    1
  7699. I'm sure that's true for many people. But, it's just too new for the channel mostly
    1
  7700. No, I don't think so
    1
  7701. Thanks for watching!
    1
  7702. Same one
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  7703. This is an academic channel so I stick to academic not halachic standards.
    1
  7704.  @aroncohn9911  I wear a kippah all the time - it's a folk-way of Judaism - I'm Reconstructionist so Halacha gets a vote but not a veto in how I make decisions, that goes for shabbat, kashrut, etc., as well.
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  7705.  @aroncohn9911  Thanks so much and glad you find them helpful. So glad when the spectrum of Jewish life can come together and thrive!
    1
  7706. Make Sure to Subscribe & Consider supporting Esoterica by becoming a monthly Patron - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel or a one time donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel
    1
  7707. What evidence?
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  7708. You're very welcome
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  7709. Kinda
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  7710. Different guy, John of Lugio was 13th century, your John is a few centuries later.
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  7711. I saw that I have vol 1
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  7712. It should be - let me know if you can't find it.
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  7713. Go stones
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  7714. Ha, crib at will!
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  7715. Wow - glad you have found with worthwhile!
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  7716. Not a rabbi, just a civilian but thanks so much for liking the channel!
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  7717. Thanks for the super, and for your kind comments!
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  7718. different agrippa
    1
  7719. Good catch
    1
  7720. You might be able to - details to come!
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  7721. Thanks Paul!
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  7722. Thanks!
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  7723. Watch some of my many alchemy videos to find out!
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  7724. But that's literally their argument. None of these scholars deny the perpetuation of mass violence.
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  7725. Thanks kindly!
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  7726. Superseded by the Daniel Matt translation.
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  7727. Absolutely - glad these videos are helpful, especially to practitioners. It's an honor to have folks like you give the nod of approval.
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  7728. Coming Friday - bli neder
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  7729. Thanks Paul!
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  7730. My thoughts exactly!
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  7731. This is the hygromanteia I have another episode on the Testament
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  7732. https://youtu.be/5-E4ZRZg2bY?si=Tbm_J7EOs5aroBOb
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  7733. 3 i think
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  7734. No, I am not a rabbi, my phd is in philosophy.
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  7735.  @penroc3  I teach philosophy and religion at the university level. I specialize in Western Esotericism.
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  7736. Of course, I'd enjoy that! Great to hear from you !
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  7737. I've always thought so
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  7738. People wonder why I make so much content discussing the dangers of the Inquisition the early modern witch hunts and similar nightmares in history. Thanks for commenting and for letting your thoughts be heard. A lot of people suffered a lot of terrible things during that whole ordeal but it's crucially important to put the families of those injured and murdered that day first and foremost. What happened to me was bad what happened to them was utterly unimaginable and the satanic panic only proved to deepen their trauma.
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  7739. it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes - yah!
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  7740. I can imagine trad. Kabbalists look at the DVM at mumbling "נאַרישקייט" also don't forget the male 'shiksa', the 'shegetz'
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  7741. Yep, that's them !
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  7742. Fascist nonsense
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  7743. Hi Amber - thanks for your thoughtful question. My community is very inclusive and diverse and given that my work is academic I don't think anyone thinks it's especially weird - I literally teach classes for my community on topics like this (e.g., history of Jewish magic, prophecy, demons, etc) and will be teaching a Jewish mysticism / kabbalah class soon as well - which will be uploaded to the channel for free, thanks to their permission! I'm a pretty open book, especially on my Friday livestreams one of which will happen this week, maybe you can hang out if you have further questions!
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  7744.  @amberhines01  I'm just some guy with a weird education. It's my duty, obligation and joy to share that education and it doesn't make me one bit better than anyone else.
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  7745. Yep
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  7746. Delicious
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  7747. Hopefully it's a solid introduction - always feel free to comment back with questions as you make your way through it!
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  7748. Evidence points to it being a joke basically - Ben Sirah was a satirical text. Only silly modern people take it seriously.
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  7749. A bit actually. You know I hadn't had pastis for quite some time and bought of bottle of Pernod Pastis just the other day. It's a bit thinner and there is sugar added so it is pretty sweet. Also it doesn't contain any wormwood and these days is basically a bunch of oil extracts mixed with alcohol, so a far cry from traditional absinthe. But, I will say that it's still perfect nice on a hot day - or evening - at the cafe!
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  7750. I mentioned that
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  7751. Glad you like the channel!
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  7752. I do
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  7753. Sure they did 𓏞𓏜 - sS "to write"
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  7754. That's not Occam's razor.
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  7755.  @MalloryWelch  Nice - really enjoyed your version of idioteque - feel free to shoot me any questions as you like and good luck with the writing!
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  7756. Many thanks!
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  7757. Sorry! Uhhh let me look ;)
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  7758. Probably
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  7759. mayhaps
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  7760. Not paimon, paimon's agent ;)
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  7761. Hi Ken - I'm glad the content is interesting for you and thank you so, so much for becoming a supporter of the channel! It really means a ton to me.
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  7762. About it !
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  7763. Not even sure what that is!
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  7764. Check the pinned comment
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  7765. The later half of Beowulf does feature a nice archaicizing insular majuscule hand
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  7766. Nah
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  7767. People did call that stuff out. In fact in the condemnation of 1277 a lot of stuff like that was precisely at target. It just got slipped under the rug later
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  7768. At some point!
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  7769. Thanks!
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  7770. Nope, neither
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  7771. Nope
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  7772. Thanks for the kind donation!
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  7773. ...and awesome
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  7774. Thank you kindly!
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  7775. Not Greek but Latin and yes. Irish monks were decisive in that process and Alcuin was crucial during Charlemagne's rule
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  7776. I always think of it in relation to Freud.
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  7777. Not currently
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  7778. Not sure what is, but thanks!
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  7779. No, it's nonsense or a hoax or both.
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  7780. All of my alchemy episode have a recommended reading list in the description - good luck!
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  7781. Mine is the 10th too :)
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  7782. Glad you found the channel and thanks for viewing - always glad to hear of folks enjoying the content! Many thanks!
    1
  7783. for real, though
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  7784.  @joshcruz7912  yeah I wouldn't "slip" anyone anything but yes pro trippy dancing
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  7785. ^this+
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  7786. Great question!
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  7787. Ha, yes ! It's possible about the garments, many if these kabbalists were very well traveled.
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  7788. Most definitely
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  7789. I agree
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  7790. It's not gibberish, it's just "barely literate Greek"
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  7791.  @tedhand6237  Totally agree about it being not being a primary focus. I also don't what they were doing was science but certainly experimental and fundamentally a laboratory affair. I just find that this debate gets framed by categories like 'spiritual' or 'scientific' that strike me as fundamentally (1) not well defined philosophically (or otherwise) and (2) just often clumsily applied. But I'm very sympathetic Newman and Principe - I just don't think it's an exhaustive account. Another way of putting it, is that making a sharp distinction between philosophy, religion and experimental science seems, to me at least, to distort the history of alchemy as well. Though, I think, not as badly as the Atwood-Jung distortion. This also drives my interest in a historical-materialist analysis of entrepreneurial alchemy, which I honestly think could prove important. If only I had the time and institutional support to do that research. Thanks for this thoughtful and important critical eye - I really appreciate it.
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  7792. I mention that in the lecture, even gets a whole slide
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  7793. I'll take it :)
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  7794. Definitely not
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  7795. Italian card games
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  7796. Glad you found us and thanks for watchin!
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  7797. That'd be entertaining to watch
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  7798. Not to even mention the definitely more archaic layer in the Hekhalot material
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  7799. Nope comment here is fine. We sold the exorcism manual but have another one with a more magical bent. And, we also have another copy of the Inquisition Encyclopedia from 1612. Contact us with interest!
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  7800. Thanks - I'm glad to be able to work hard to produce this content and glad folks are finding it interesting!
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  7801. via my website - thanks!
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  7802. Nah
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  7803. High praise, especially coming from you!
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  7804. Yep, all the Abrahamic faiths have seen a huge uptick in exorcisms in the past couple decades. Prompting real changes in the Vatican and in Haredi Jewish communities - exorcist looks like a more promising career path than programmer at this point :)
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  7805.  @kbone8137  if it's noetic, at any point, this analysis should obtain. Otherwise, not.
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  7806.  @kbone8137  it's just philosophy speak for "holds true"
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  7807.  @kbone8137  it's good stuff and clearly you've put some thought into it!
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  7808. It's mythology
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  7809. Many thanks for your kind contribution!
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  7810. Nope!
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  7811. Many thanks for these kind words
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  7812. Mosin nagant
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  7813. Yep and nope
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  7814. ?
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  7815.  @benalichante1269  On the way - stay tuned!
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  7816. Glad yo u liked it and learned more about this important philosopher!
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  7817. Interesting - I wonder what scholars? Glad to be recognized for sure and hope I can keep making content on these topics and improving along the way. Hopefully Esoterica will continue to grow and provide new and interesting avenues to present topics in western esotericism as I can dedicate more time to the project!
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  7818.  @rivalism  Nice - Always wonderful to have the respect of folks in the field, both academic and practitioner and academic/practitioner!
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  7819. Mentioned at the end.
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  7820. That was certainly myth
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  7821. Very true.
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  7822. Did I ?
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  7823. Thanks so much!
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  7824. Thanks! Also, I really appreciate your work on your blog - thanks for it!
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  7825. I don't have the expertise in Islamic studies
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  7826. Let's talk religion
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  7827. Record it.
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  7828. If you can share it I could tell you if it's enochian
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  7829. Check out my website for contact
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  7830. Thanks, friend - hope you hang around!
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  7831. I don't think the apologists really care.
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  7832. Atiot? Like אותיות?
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  7833. The text definitely deals with the olam hanikiddot
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  7834. ¯\_(ツ)_/
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  7835. Check out my video on how to read a medieval book of magic
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  7836. Get the single volume Hackett edition - the introduction alone is mind-blowing
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  7837. It's clearly a technical term and therefore shouldn't be translated
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  7838. Yeah or IAŌ
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  7839. Eh discussed below
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  7840. No, those are just for going up to the Temple mt.
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  7841. Nope
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  7842. 2560, while no masterpiece, is still significantly better executed than Voynich
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  7843. Thanks for the kind comment - not a rabbi, just a phd ;)
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  7844. I'll probably do one on Set but that might be all.
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  7845. Wonderful, thank you!
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  7846. Nah, Christian mysticism is truly amazing and very much worthy of study
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  7847. Glad you enjoyed it
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  7848. Hope you're doing well - All the best in the new year !
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  7849. Interesting mythology though I find the dualist variants and dualism generally to be detestable
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  7850. Angela over @ Angela's Symposium has a few good ones!
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  7851. Thanks so much and thanks for your thoughtful comments!
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  7852. Nope
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  7853. The most famous "Book of Yashar" is an 18th century fraud, as I mentioned in the episode.
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  7854. Evidence?
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  7855. I'm very sorry to hear this and hope a speedy recovery for you. Unfortunately, I don't give this kind of advice.
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  7856. RIP Fennians, I used to live over on Bellevue!
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  7857. Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
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  7858. Thanks for the support of the channel!
    1
  7859. Evidence for inquisitional targeting of non-abrahamic religions?
    1
  7860. I'm not aware of any evidence of the inquisition doing this.
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  7861. Link in the description
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  7862. I'm happy for any and all support and cherish it all - thanks so much and happy new year!
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  7863. No
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  7864. Thanks for the kind words and the generous donation!
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  7865. 💯
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  7866. Yep, similar train of thought probably
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  7867. Exemplifies a profound misunderstanding of entanglement more than anything
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  7868. Right? How absolutely ridiculous. But, I'm so happy to hear your fundraiser is going so well, congrats!
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  7869. The Vatican is actually very accessible. That they keep scholars out or hide ancient documents is a myth.
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  7870. They don't gotta burn the books, just remove 'em
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  7871. Exiled, crippled slave who wrote in Greek - that's saying something about Rome
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  7872. Glad it works now!
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  7873. Many thanks and glad to share the platform with such fine folks!
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  7874. My fav!
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  7875. You're right - what I get for quoting from memory
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  7876. It's about Agrippa's alchemy
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  7877. More messianism than apocalypticism
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  7878. Thanks so much - love your work!
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  7879. Trinitite
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  7880. Verily
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  7881. Let Millsaps know this!
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  7882. Nope, this is an academic channel.
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  7883. Yeah, it's an easy mistake to make when studying historical alchemy!
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  7884. I doubt it otherwise I suspect we'd have heard about them from irenaeus etc
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  7885. Many thanks for saying so
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  7886. Most do.
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  7887. Thanks!
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  7888. Not a rabbi, just a civilian ;)
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  7889. You are so kind - thanks!
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  7890. Many thanks and many more thanks for your support!
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  7891. Me? Never!
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  7892. this^
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  7893. Yeah, that whole world of bitters is fascinating!
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  7894. Glad you like it - thanks!
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  7895. No, long since digitized
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  7896. Uranium, stibnite, galena and cinnabar
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  7897. Yep
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  7898. ?
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  7899. Mentioned and coming - why?
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  7900. It's Latin so the or no is fine - it's in the volume I recommend in this episode
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  7901. It's already translated
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  7902. Also Google translate will only butcher Latin most of the time
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  7903. It really says that birth pain will increase not that there previously was none.
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  7904. It's an AS of Caligula
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  7905. Not really esoteric
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  7906. Thanks - and I need to be in touch with you. Look for a message soon and I'm really enjoying the YT videos!
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  7907. Not directly, aside from the shared inheritance of PIE religion with Hinudism.
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  7908. Me too!
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  7909. yep, though there is no evidence prior. I do think Valentinus is the first. He is writing within c. 50 years of the composition of the Gospel of John.
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  7910. Nope
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  7911. Very unlikely
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  7912. Not so much hadewijch, others didn't fare so well
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  7913. I did cover Spinoza in a past episode
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  7914. Japanese puzzle boxes
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  7915. These texts are mythological - no different than the Gospels, Torah, the Qur'an, the Odyssey or Gilgamesh
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  7916. They don't appear at all the SY.
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  7917. Probably not but a dim expression compared to divine love
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  7918. Yeah, it and similar legendary schools of magic in Spain
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  7919. No idea
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  7920. It's kinda silly
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  7921. Stay in sente!
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  7922. Ha!
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  7923. The whole finding something fascinating in a tomb
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  7924. There is no evidence that it was ever purposely destroyed.
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  7925. Maybe you're thinking of the bayt al hikma
    1
  7926. ?
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  7927. I feel you friend, hope you are doing well and good to hear from you!
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  7928. Nope, not yet?
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  7929.  @YoelFievelBenAvram  Yep thought sadly /r/jewish doesn't allow video posts. Regardless, I'm just happy to be able to produce content like this and make it available for those that find it useful. Thanks for your support and kind words!
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  7930. Many thanks for your support of the channel!
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  7931. eh - not everyone likes everything. I'm just happy for the folks that like my content!
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  7932. Much appreciated!
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  7933. Not any time soon
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  7934. Glad you think so!
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  7935. Let the fash know what's what
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  7936. It's truly impressive material - glad I'm finally getting around to discussion....especially after mining his art for all those gnosticism episodes!
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  7937. I think it's just random, mysterious symbols
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  7938. y e s
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  7939. You can find the text I was referring to on my website for purchase
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  7940. Mosin not AK
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  7941. True this!
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  7942.  @AnnieManul1  source?
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  7943. Thanks for this kind donation!
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  7944. Thanks for the recommendation - I visited Iceland a few years ago and found it to be an absolutely stunning place!
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  7945. Wow - such a gracious invitation! Anyway you could contact via my website or the email link on youtube?
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  7946. Thanks, Friend! Hope you enjoy the content!
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  7947. See the FAQ on my website.
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  7948. Yep, you are certainly correct it's easy to miss but so crucial.
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  7949.  @profbri.02  Different Lucid - I have a whole episode about absinthe on the channel, along with me opening a 100 year old bottle!
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  7950.  @profbri.02  There are peer-reviewed journals that show that absinthe contains nothing deleterious (other than alcohol) - I've been in the absinthe world since the late 90's and through the repeal of the ban. I also collect pre-ban absinthe. It's no more harmful than any other spirit.
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  7951. Plan to - thanks for watching!
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  7952. There would have to be evidence of that for me to make a video about it
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  7953. Yep, there's a lot already from their archives online
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  7954. Man, I wish I could do music :)
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  7955. Thanks Helen - glad to have you around!
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  7956. Glad you like them!
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  7957. That he was a fascist? Of course he was
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  7958. Yes most certainly
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  7959. Dog snoring
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  7960. RIP ;)
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  7961. Depends on the author and at the time the text is being produced. But yes, many texts follow this line of thinking.
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  7962. That's partially why I didn't use it.
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  7963. So did virtually all ancient cultures.
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  7964. Duly noted and added to the pile
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  7965. Very high praise, coming from you! Thanks for dropping by the channel.
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  7966. Thanks so much! Hope you stick around!
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  7967. and?
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  7968. Slaveress - Tituba was owned by a woman specifically in Barbados before Parriss
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  7969. Yeah I also refer to them with their proper dnd names
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  7970. I don't think that's possible
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  7971. These magi were made up by the author of Luke
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  7972. Fine by me I even included the Aramaic text
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  7973. Prolly I'm southern
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  7974. Yep, mosin-nagant oil/solvent can
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  7975. Check out my recent episode on him!
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  7976. Depends on what you mean by observant?
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  7977. godspeed and good luck!
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  7978. God is, among other things the 'mediate infinite mode' of Extension and Spinoza refers to God as the "the face of the whole universe." You can check out Letter 64 for more on this. But yes, God is a literally extended thing for Spinoza.
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  7979. Supporting the work can be just leaving kind comments - thanks!
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  7980. It's just always gonna come back to treasure around here ;)
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  7981. Pseudo albertus Magnus is your best bet here maybe some rogat bacon too
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  7982. Seek and ye shall find.
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  7983. :) Lots of little jokes like that around in these videos!
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  7984. The fish in hand symbol for Esoterica is Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences. So I don't think it has anything to do with that symbolism.
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  7985. Thanks for your support and I owe you an email - will get to it soon!
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  7986. No idea
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  7987. This is covered in Zuber's dissertation and remains a minority position. Also, there is little to no evidence of any 'spiritual' continuity post-Zosimus, especially in the European context between the 12th and 16th centuries. I've mentioned these exceptions but exceptions they are. Also, it's odd that you would recommend that I read a text that in my alchemy videos I've literally recommended. Did you not watch closely or do you not believe I've read it?
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  7988.  @derekdunivan6879  Right, I never said it didn't exist. I'm saying it was a very minority position with basically no textual evidence from the periods in question. Do you have sources or evidence of alchemists contemporary to the Splendor Solis or the Book of Lambspring reading them as otherwise?
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  7989. Thanks so much - working hard to make solid content!
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  7990. read closer
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  7991. Wow that a helluva compliment:)
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  7992. Thanks for saying so!
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  7993. Gnostic Norea ? Sure
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  7994. @Truth Reaction and?
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  7995. Yeah reconstruction should never ended, imho
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  7996. Like the Ḫˁ Snfrw pyramid, right?
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  7997. See comment below, weird fluke
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  7998. Definitely not gin but definitely not knocking gin.
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  7999. oh yeah, I think we are seeing the start of it now.
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  8000. just google Portuguese distilling - it should come up
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  8001. Many thanks for the support and sadly, yes - the panic is still with us.
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  8002. Link in the comments!
    1
  8003. ?
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  8004. Thanks for your service.
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  8005. That's what he wrote
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  8006. Corridos?
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  8007. uh, congrats?
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  8008. Yeah, he had that market cornered.
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  8009. Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio
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  8010. Pretty sure I've not trimmed it in....a minute
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  8011. Not really a question I can answer but there's lots of wisdom on that front around here!
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  8012. Yep cult + time = religion
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  8013. Say it, Dan.......say it
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  8014. There's no connection with the Egyptian word "ḥk3w" that we say "heka" is just an academic reconstruction.
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  8015. Nah, it's just a big bible MS with a picture of the devil in it. That's it, really.
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  8016. No, nearly all that material is out of date
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  8017. Yep!
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  8018. Nah
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  8019. Thanks for watching!
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  8020. Nah I have several volumes
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  8021. Thinking of a non-existent entity (e.g., unicorns) requires you to at least imagine them, thus they have per se existence if not in se existence (i.e., they exist as objects of thought). You can't think non-being because to think it requires you to conceive it either in se or per se. Clearly it can't be the former, and for the latter you are simply conceiving of something like ∀x = {ø} which, nevertheless, clearly has ontological status.
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  8022. Thought unicorns can pull thought chariots - depending on your ontology. Generally speaking an object of thought is often said to subsist as an object of thought even if it doesn't exist as an object in reality. Either way, it is possible to predicate of both, and that (seems to be) Parmenides' point.
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  8023. Definitely not but thanks!
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  8024. Yep!
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  8025. This
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  8026. The old EA Wallis Budge
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  8027. At the height of the medieval inquisition how many were relaxed to the secular arm? How many were killed in absolute numbers? I discuss this in the episode.
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  8028. I asked for data.
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  8029. Thanks for the donation!
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  8030. Thanks!
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  8031. Thank you too!
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  8032. Depends on who ask
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  8033. You'd have to forge the language and the material evidence for hundreds of pages there's simply no way anyone then could have done that
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  8034. Solomon seems possible if not likely. The ring is mythology.
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  8035. They'll be more classes, don't worry!
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  8036. Not just any inquisitor, but the Inquisitor general
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  8037. No, the skeptics accept, for instance, the existence of the Waldensians - you should read their works to truly evaluate them.
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  8038. Probably
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  8039. Especially doda menachem
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  8040. Ha - I thought I was the one that was going to explode!
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  8041. It's amazing that the Genizah survived - often diaster hids treasures.
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  8042. Check the pinned comment to email about costs, details, signing up for the open house, etc - thanks!
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  8043. Thanks for the tip - I'll look into it !
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  8044. mentioned in the episode
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  8045. No idea
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  8046. I don't know what those are
    1
  8047. or I have a jankie camera that's so much on it's last leg I literally can't move it from that spot it's in or it won't work.
    1
  8048. Thanks - yeah, shoot it over to me via my website if you like!
    1
  8049. Yep, I say as much in the episode
    1
  8050. I've read it a few times, why?
    1
  8051. Yes, very much agree.
    1
  8052. I think they were going to shoot him with arrows, if I remember correctly.
    1
  8053. Nope, what do you have in mind?
    1
  8054. As a proud gibblerite, welcome :)
    1
  8055. Nice - Do you have the Hebrew version?
    1
  8056. https://www.justinsledge.com/product-page/1743-roman-astrology-astronomicon-manilius
    1
  8057. Envy!
    1
  8058. Already did
    1
  8059. Yep via my website!
    1
  8060. This really isn't a philosophy channel per se
    1
  8061. Registration for the second group just opened today.
    1
  8062. Yes'm
    1
  8063. Nope
    1
  8064. Do you have a source for the claim that the "Cathar God who is both masculine and feminine," the role of any "sophia" character in their theology or the prominent role played by women or even named 'cathar' women in the historical literature?
    1
  8065. Very few but I've made a couple of episodes about them
    1
  8066. I mean that ;)
    1
  8067. How so?
    1
  8068. Thanks for supporting the channel!
    1
  8069. Never read it
    1
  8070. Nah.
    1
  8071. Yes
    1
  8072. Because he's too recent
    1
  8073. This is the first of 3ish, the next one is coming soon !
    1
  8074. t r v e
    1
  8075.  @MrSteventodd  Thanks so much for saying so and considering to support the channel on Patreon! I hope the content is worthwhile and thought-provoking. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
    1
  8076. It was the international language of the ancient world after akkadian
    1
  8077. and I certainly appreciate it!
    1
  8078. Ha!
    1
  8079. Prexactly
    1
  8080. Nice! You ever sell samples or swap for some Edouard? I would love to try it again.
    1
  8081. Thanks - hope you keep watching!
    1
  8082. https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/83436?lang=bi
    1
  8083. Late classical world
    1
  8084. odd....odd
    1
  8085. There's no evidence of any.
    1
  8086. No evidence that Pythagoras did either. He probably visited Egypt where he developed their soul concept which Plato inherited.
    1
  8087. It's linked to Nazi vril nonsense - not you, though !
    1
  8088. Hard agree
    1
  8089. Ha!
    1
  8090. You can. And did.
    1
  8091. Japanese puzzle boxes!
    1
  8092. да, товарищ
    1
  8093. Yep, that's the least these texts deserve
    1
  8094. I have an episode on it
    1
  8095. Many thanks for this generous donation to the channel!
    1
  8096. Yep, hence the term "epilepsy." Hope she has her health, regardless!
    1
  8097. Trying to get youtube to undo that, super not fair!
    1
  8098. Don't know, honestly. Not my area of expertise.
    1
  8099. Story of my life
    1
  8100. Nebula is paywalled and invite only
    1
  8101. datation?
    1
  8102. I'm still not sure what you're asking
    1
  8103. Thanks!
    1
  8104. yes....and trinitite
    1
  8105. Thanks!
    1
  8106. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  8107. I definitely don't and this is all just standard academic information
    1
  8108. No, not yet but that's a great topic.
    1
  8109. Why?
    1
  8110. Happy new year!!
    1
  8111. What do you mean ?
    1
  8112. Japanese puzzle boxes
    1
  8113. Thank you for the kind donation!
    1
  8114. Thanks 👍
    1
  8115. Glad you enjoy the content !
    1
  8116. The noab is pretty good about that
    1
  8117. If you find some, holler!
    1
  8118. Nope different guy - but a Google search would have revealed that. Did you do one?
    1
  8119. Assuming that story is true, which I doubt.
    1
  8120. If I did that, that was a mistake on my part.
    1
  8121.  @LQhristian  source?
    1
  8122. I'm sorry - always happy to share the script!
    1
  8123.  @GnosticTheist  Yep - that's my rebbe :) As the channel gets bigger I'll probably start doing some live streams. So perhaps we can chat then!
    1
  8124. Yep, I did that episode
    1
  8125. It's pretty common - Amazon ?
    1
  8126. וָאֵרָ֗א אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֶל־יִצְחָ֥ק וְאֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֖ב בְּאֵ֣ל שַׁדָּ֑י וּשְׁמִ֣י יְהֹוָ֔ה לֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖עְתִּי לָהֶֽם׃ I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה. - Exodus.6.3
    1
  8127. Probably a medieval hoax
    1
  8128. Yeah I totally love treasure magic
    1
  8129. Thanks - trying to give the Green Fairy her due!
    1
  8130. yeah, the 'self' is a grift.
    1
  8131. Yep, a digital hyper text would be great. But you'd be surprised how much commentary you can squeeze onto a page of the Vilna Shas. Would be a fun project if I had, you know, funding or time or institutional support or...
    1
  8132.  @johndemeritt3460  Yep, I feel blessed enough to have the support I do for the channel to even produce this content!
    1
  8133. εἰκότα μῦθον
    1
  8134. Many thanks for this kind donation of support!
    1
  8135. That tended to do it
    1
  8136. Thanks, Friend and I just got my yearly batch of herbs in - you know what that means !
    1
  8137. Not sure I understand what you mean
    1
  8138.  @andythedishwasher1117  ah gotcha!
    1
  8139. I wouldn't describe LDS theology as "less messy" by any stretch of the imagination
    1
  8140. Yep, true story!
    1
  8141. Nah
    1
  8142. Thanks for the kind words and generous donation!
    1
  8143. Cocaine, etc.
    1
  8144. Interesting - I'll have to check it out
    1
  8145. Yeah, I tried but it only let me do one card per video for some reason...
    1
  8146. They right
    1
  8147. A structural similarity without shared genetic origin.
    1
  8148. Yeah, that guy is kinda a turd. You can imagine what his fellow Jews think of him, smh.
    1
  8149. All humans ;)
    1
  8150. Wow, the moreh got you into minut? Interesting!
    1
  8151. Ie chug mercury
    1
  8152. Say hello - I miss living in the Netherlands a to. Have an oude jenever and send my regards to that beautiful country!
    1
  8153.  @willemkossen  I did my MA there at the UVA and lived in Amsterdam. My dorm actually had a tiny balcony onto the Prinsengracht!
    1
  8154. Why would you - this was a couple hundred years before the Spanish inquisition
    1
  8155. Yeah, those poor shelves :)
    1
  8156. You can reach me via my website
    1
  8157. I'll happily take them! They are Japanese puzzle boxes, I collect them!
    1
  8158. Yeah, though this is weird, tough German.
    1
  8159. True story - it's wonderfully crazy !
    1
  8160. Glad you like them!
    1
  8161. The Meyer edition is now the standby, the old Robinson is fine though
    1
  8162. Latin's just a language and this Latin is more a bad joke than evil
    1
  8163. That's kinda an ironic response
    1
  8164. I saw - wow, thanks, thanks so much for your support! Hope to see you Sunday for the Zoom hangout!
    1
  8165. Nope they are a distinct group of underworld beings
    1
  8166. Booooy!
    1
  8167. Us there is a ton of literature on this topic is available
    1
  8168. yeah, just transmute Brill into Hackett.
    1
  8169. You can always skip ahead ;)
    1
  8170. Wonderful to have you!
    1
  8171. Nah, they are a bit late for the channel.
    1
  8172. Hermetic standup - well if Joe Pera has has an audience...
    1
  8173. I'm not sure if it's all true but I hope the presentation was interesting and engaging - thanks for commenting!
    1
  8174. Yeah, the horror in China are the endless exams to get a job in the state bureaucracy
    1
  8175. There's actually no evidence that Dee ever owned much less used that mirror. The stones he used were always small crystal balls.
    1
  8176. Hanging out with him later today!
    1
  8177. Everyone back then talks about arete or eudaimonia or ataraxia or what have you
    1
  8178. No, not to my knowledge.
    1
  8179. and profoundly misguided to boot.
    1
  8180. Misguided in that she fundamentally misunderstood alchemy
    1
  8181. Hard agree
    1
  8182. Smith translation?
    1
  8183. Maybe
    1
  8184. Sorry about corporate life :(
    1
  8185. You might be thinking of Dan's channel, the Modern Hermeticist.
    1
  8186. Yeah, they need a union
    1
  8187. jꜥḥ just means moon in Egyptian
    1
  8188. That's great
    1
  8189. @atomic pill Heresies of the High Middle Ages - Wakefield & Evans
    1
  8190.  @statiratalayeh  He actually just reached out to me this week! Looks like we are going to record something soon!
    1
  8191. Yeah Angela is pretty over the top
    1
  8192. Mosin ;)
    1
  8193. Price is a bigot
    1
  8194. Way more effective I imagine
    1
  8195. I suspect they would call it "based" in the language of the youth
    1
  8196. Yep, old books are addicting!
    1
  8197. Predestined
    1
  8198. Huh?
    1
  8199. 𒌑𒀀𒈾𒈨𒊒 - anamiru
    1
  8200. I'd agree but crib death is also central in her mythology
    1
  8201. I'm just glad I can do my small part.
    1
  8202. ?
    1
  8203. Hi There - you can always contact me via my website!
    1
  8204. Which author?
    1
  8205. Why worry about any gods or demons?
    1
  8206. I guess the Romans had more faith then
    1
  8207. A coincidence, perhaps?
    1
  8208. Nope no realtion
    1
  8209. Thanks friend - hope you stick around!
    1
  8210. Thanks for watching!
    1
  8211. Mosin nagant!
    1
  8212. No, not so much at this early period. Gui does discuss un-converted Jews here and there but to be a heretic, you had to first be a Christian.
    1
  8213. I belong to a mainstream religion and welcome!
    1
  8214. Awesome - let me know what you think!
    1
  8215. Covered it in my episode on Ugaritic magic
    1
  8216. Penises YouTube hates penises
    1
  8217. Unclear and Dutch.
    1
  8218. It lead to the destruction of Ugarit and led to the refugee crisis, the arrival of the 'Sea Peoples' including the "Peleset," as the Egyptians called them, known to us as the Philistines.
    1
  8219. Thanks so much!
    1
  8220. I appreciate you saying so!
    1
  8221. It's a fun corner !
    1
  8222. I mean string theory dominates particle physics and has for the better part of two generations - should we be that shocked?
    1
  8223. Who was also linked with magic in the late-classical world.
    1
  8224. Don't forget world peace. That's a real zinger.
    1
  8225. Neat reference - thanks !
    1
  8226. Ancient Enochian?
    1
  8227. Like Geez or the enochian of the dee diaries?
    1
  8228. Hey Brother, thanks for the thoughtful comments and reflections. I just want this important information to reach folks in an accessible and reliable manner - thanks for supporting the content!
    1
  8229. Depends on the faction but John of Lugio held that Satan was co-eternal with God
    1
  8230. It should be there as Zohar part 2
    1
  8231.  @יהודה-מ1ח  כן - אני אעשה פרק על ניוטון בסופו של דבר!
    1
  8232. Both spiritual and physical 'matter' are co-eternal in their respective realms.
    1
  8233. Where did I claim that?
    1
  8234. I hope so!
    1
  8235. Wasn't coming from me, those critiques are coming from the post-paracelsians themselves.
    1
  8236. Sounds like the Symposium more than the Alcibiades
    1
  8237. Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!
    1
  8238. Lds?
    1
  8239. Link in the comments!
    1
  8240. Same
    1
  8241. Did you contact Argos Destinations reservations@argosdestinations.com ?
    1
  8242. Are these concepts in the emerald tablet? References?
    1
  8243. Most episodes have book recommendations including this one I think
    1
  8244. Yeah, great idea!
    1
  8245. Yep stupidity always flourishes somewhere
    1
  8246. Probably not, just a nice idea - maybe?
    1
  8247. Check the comments for a link to the study guide
    1
  8248. Where did Luria live in Egypt before going to Safed?
    1
  8249. Mosin nagant
    1
  8250. Mayhaps!
    1
  8251. They did it as early as 1941, transmuting mercury by neutron bombardment.
    1
  8252. Be careful with those presumptions, cowboy
    1
  8253. Yes! Thank you!
    1
  8254. I gotta get me some of these divine being dreams.
    1
  8255. Different Heptameron
    1
  8256. Definitely a text I want to get to
    1
  8257. Go for it
    1
  8258. I can't really evaluate non-academic material.
    1
  8259. Thanks - hope you have a chance to look at my thesis, my semiotic analysis of the MH. Also RE: steganographia I will certainly be doing some stuff there, especially Trithemius, who I see more important as a information theorist than a cryptographer.
    1
  8260. Maybe their final destruction but probably not the order overall
    1
  8261. No it means false writing in Greek
    1
  8262. Those weren't angels no more
    1
  8263. Hi, Helen! Hope you are well!
    1
  8264. Cancel each other out? Good question
    1
  8265. Thanks so much for your support and kind words !
    1
  8266. ונתחזק!
    1
  8267. Thanks for this kind donation!
    1
  8268. see comment below
    1
  8269. Thanks - hope you enjoy the content!
    1
  8270. Church imparts state legitimacy, the state protects the church from it's enemies - classic feudal arrangement
    1
  8271. The abbreviation is from Latin
    1
  8272. I think so too!
    1
  8273. Sometime this year
    1
  8274. Japanese puzzle boxes!
    1
  8275. Super interesting stuff indeed !
    1
  8276. Thanks kindly for the donation to the channel!
    1
  8277. That is flattering and definitely not true ;)
    1
  8278. Glad you dig it, brother!
    1
  8279. I don't think so but they so kinda look similar!
    1
  8280.  @TheMysticPete  shoot me an email!
    1
  8281. No one said they're weren't ancient alchemists
    1
  8282.  @Hells_Chance  If you want any recommendations let me know!
    1
  8283. deleted - conspiracy theory.
    1
  8284. First edition Malleus is about $190,000 so you'd need about $40,000 than just a kidney.
    1
  8285. More middle-platonism, but yes
    1
  8286. They weren't in the 17th century protocols I used.
    1
  8287. Yep I mentioned Williams in the episode!
    1
  8288. I think it's my way of saying it's probably an elaborate quasi-fraud.
    1
  8289. Did an episode on that one too though there's no evidence of any connection between the ms and dee/kelly
    1
  8290. Many thanks for this kind donation
    1
  8291. Me too!
    1
  8292. Verily
    1
  8293. Many kind thanks - glad the channel is rewarding for you!
    1
  8294. Would be nice - Glad you are enjoining the content!
    1
  8295. Jesus never knew Paul
    1
  8296. So says Paul. Paul never historically met Jesus.
    1
  8297. Nice - hope the episode compliments your research!
    1
  8298. New track by krallice
    1
  8299. I'd love learning at his feet, an amazing human being to be sure
    1
  8300. Doesn't really need a whole video, it's just Christian hegemony
    1
  8301. BIG chunks of time - deep time I think y'all call it
    1
  8302. I didn't. I said the Spiritual Franciscans.
    1
  8303. I did
    1
  8304. it's funny....and kinda sad :)
    1
  8305. I'm really sorry to hear this. I'll talk to them about it but you should be able to request a refund
    1
  8306. Written in the hand of Jeanne des ange
    1
  8307. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  8308. If I have an antique bowl from just that religion why would you assume I haven't studied them?
    1
  8309. She was praised by none less than popes.
    1
  8310. Yep, first one written and shot for the channel - going to redo it this year I think !
    1
  8311. Why ? Eddie was awesome!
    1
  8312. Great question - No, but I would consider it an initiatory religion. No: because faith is still salvific here rather than knowledge. But yes, LDS is highly esoteric all the way back to its origins.
    1
  8313. All predator birds are considered unclean by Jewish law
    1
  8314. Not too controversial but there just isn't much of it left and it's not terribly esoteric.
    1
  8315. Much appreciated!
    1
  8316. Yep, credit where it's due
    1
  8317. Ha, I've never been young ;)
    1
  8318. I appreciate it, but absolutely so do archaeologists. I won't have their scientific work insulted.
    1
  8319. yep!
    1
  8320. You can find it on my website here - https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/shop/p/1765-epistles-of-bernard-of-clairvaux-w-templar-texts-hildegard-of-bingen
    1
  8321. prexactly
    1
  8322. I really do need an Orval this evening !
    1
  8323. I'm pretty sure you're fine - Latin isn't magical
    1
  8324. See my faq ;)
    1
  8325. maybe....or just the radiometer behind the flask slowly spinning. spooky
    1
  8326. Ha - yep, I put a link to the transcription/ translation with my notes in the description too
    1
  8327. Good point ;)
    1
  8328. ha! Great idea - "for leper water only"
    1
  8329. I know, I know - it's a joke ;)
    1
  8330. yeah, I'm more a Cordovero man myself but a lot more 'real' than what passes for kabbalah in non-Jewish circles.
    1
  8331. No, you
    1
  8332. Does it get you cattle?
    1
  8333. I won't
    1
  8334. When I get around to making it - stay tuned
    1
  8335. Nah
    1
  8336. Bones and guts And such
    1
  8337. That edition is unreliable, unfortunately.
    1
  8338. The Mead is better but still woefully out of date.
    1
  8339. dog snoring....it's funny everyone thinks it's demons.
    1
  8340. Purdue!
    1
  8341. Not to my knowledge - any studies show otherwise?
    1
  8342. I don't much
    1
  8343. Yhvh katan - יהוה קטן
    1
  8344. Huh ?
    1
  8345. Dr. Crawford has elected not to work with the channel
    1
  8346. Thanks and probably not
    1
  8347.  @TulipsAtSunset  I'm failing confident those are mythological beings
    1
  8348. That's not the argument. It's about being able to fundamentally improve upon nature, i.e., alter and object from one fundamental metaphysical category to another.
    1
  8349. true story
    1
  8350. Yeah, we're basically the opposite of that
    1
  8351. These books being cool doesn't make you not cool too
    1
  8352. Probably not
    1
  8353. I've seen no evidence that demons are real
    1
  8354. Yep, got a few things....one of which is still stuck in customs since the fair :(
    1
  8355. Thanks! Feel free to share the channel around!
    1
  8356. Glad to have you along and for your insights along the way! About to teach the Judaism and Magic episode!
    1
  8357. Probably not anytime soon
    1
  8358. This ✓
    1
  8359. 'yahweh" is an academic vocalization to name the Israelite god, not a hint of danger here
    1
  8360. Great idea and thanks!
    1
  8361. Gotta peak your speak :)
    1
  8362. Money, they wanted to make 💰
    1
  8363. Still going through appeals, etc - no resolution yet
    1
  8364. huh?
    1
  8365. Very cool, if you ever want to sell it let me know! I'd love to have a copy!
    1
  8366. Yep, it's binders waste, quite popular with today's collectors. I'd love to see some photos of it if you could send them!
    1
  8367. At least you're not DMT ancient aliens guy....or are you?
    1
  8368. This episode only covers the inquisition up to 1321
    1
  8369. ^- T H I S
    1
  8370. Yep?
    1
  8371. Huh?
    1
  8372. WITH THE FUR!
    1
  8373. A bit mostly through postel - but yes though not extensively
    1
  8374. Definitely not a mystic
    1
  8375. Probably along with the 42 nomes of Egypt
    1
  8376. yep
    1
  8377. onacuz of that glottal stop ʔ
    1
  8378. Islamicate - not everyone was Muslim or an Arab in this millieu and that's the term scholars use.
    1
  8379. The amount of idiot conspiracies about this stuff is just sad
    1
  8380. Female gods like Anat ?
    1
  8381. By the middle ages the term was used for both as I pointed out in the episode.
    1
  8382. Yeah that's wildly off the mark
    1
  8383. Yep but not Proclus' commentary
    1
  8384. You know it ;)
    1
  8385. Where does it say that, in Hebrew?
    1
  8386. Is there any consensus on what those words mean?
    1
  8387. Have a whole video on Israelite magic
    1
  8388. Thanks, River!
    1
  8389. Yep, he's correct, sadly
    1
  8390. Thanks for the kind donation!
    1
  8391. Thanks for the solidarity and yes, will def be getting to Swedenborg!
    1
  8392. Thanks for watching, friend - Hope you're well!
    1
  8393. Iamblichus didn't either he dipped from a more Pythagorean pool so was closer in that regard
    1
  8394. We don't really deal much with modern spiritual movements around here.
    1
  8395. Thanks for the kind donation!
    1
  8396. 𒌑𒀀𒈾𒈨𒊒 - anamiru - a little
    1
  8397. No.
    1
  8398. Seek and you will find
    1
  8399. The classic known as The Wire
    1
  8400. He gets Lilith or Beleth?
    1
  8401. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  8402. That'd be fun!
    1
  8403. This is possible through my patreon - thanks!
    1
  8404. Neither, she's a myth
    1
  8405. Demon
    1
  8406. In Christian mythology but not Jewish mythology
    1
  8407. Read closer
    1
  8408. Yeah, goes way, way back. Ever practiced by the Puritans!
    1
  8409. I definitely don't think Dee was a fraud.
    1
  8410. In the comments
    1
  8411. Nah
    1
  8412. People also still pray
    1
  8413. The Oracles are coming up soon - reading the fragments just yesterday - and the Jabirian corpus, give how poor my Arabic is and how inaccessible the MSS are, might be hard to pull off anything soon. However, the Latin translations I could tackle and have done at least one pseudo-Geberian text, the Summa Perfectionis already. Check it out and let me know what you think!
    1
  8414. No says the magic of copyright
    1
  8415. I mentioned the book
    1
  8416. Yep!
    1
  8417. It registered the 'violation' during the "checks" process before the video was even unlisted. So, it was definitely an AI capture. It's happened before and YT has fixed it. This time....who knows? Hope you are well, brother!
    1
  8418. No, not really. But I appreciate the sentiment!
    1
  8419.  @tracywalker9291  could be, I'm sure such substances played some role.
    1
  8420.  @ravenkeefer3143  Wonder! Which one?
    1
  8421. Isn't Hebrew and if you look in the comments you'll see the explanation
    1
  8422. It was proto-chemistry and the "spiritual" aspect doesn't appear until well after the eclipse of alchemical practice
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  8423.  @bredmond812  I'm actually planning an episode about it !
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  8424.  @bredmond812  I guess that would depend on why you're interested - on the channel I just cover the historical practice - for more 'spiritual' stuff you may need to shop around though most of that stuff is rubbish, historically speaking.
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  8425. Ha! Yeah, sometimes I think about how much danger I could be in if even 1% of the stuff I research was "real."
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  8426. Alright 👍
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  8427. a small minority in Paris were, for sure.
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  8428. Who said any of the gospels are authoritative ?
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  8429. How could I argue for it being authoritative and I'm not even Christian?
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  8430. I can't so much help you there - I just present the historical and textual facts. What that means to you is ultimately up to you ;)
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  8431. Eh, everyone knows it by now.
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  8432. Glad it was helpful!
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  8433. Thanks!
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  8434. It wasn't Anubis. It was a poodle named monsieur.
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  8435. That may be true but alchemy is a distinct tradition from metallurgy though they overlap
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  8436. Just a weird fluke - explained below in comments
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  8437. Yep
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  8438. nope, why?
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  8439. Agree
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  8440. Joke
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  8441. Thanks! More Dead Sea Scroll content in the future!
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  8442. I don't think of them as similar
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  8443. Yeah, little interest. Have his book on alchemy but it's mostly instructive on how to get alchemy wrong
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  8444. ...or it's a legend. Either way.
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  8445. To my knowledge evidence of Greek philosophical texts have ever appeared, even in translation or reference, in classical India or Eastward
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  8446. Glad to hear it and hope you stick around!
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  8447. Book II, chapter 2, page 81ff, link to the original French text in the description
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  8448. Coming
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  8449. So kind thanks!
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  8450. Yeah, that's not at all how the Jewish concept of the messiah works.
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  8451. huh?
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  8452. Whoah !
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  8453. Thanks!
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  8454. Hmmm...maybe, though I think it was just evil nuns that formed the basis of the Bene Gesserit.
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  8455. No, probably not
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  8456. No one expects HANNIBAL LECTER!
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  8457. nah
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  8458. Thank you so much!
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  8459. Not really in my wheelhouse
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  8460. Totally possible. My microfilm of the John Dee MSS also had those defects.
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  8461. I don't intend on finding out :)
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  8462. knock, knock
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  8463. Yes. Indeed.
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  8464. He's a sneaky one for sure
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  8465. Doesn't exist yet
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  8466. Interesting - many thanks for the ST!
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  8467. Those connections aren't really made in traditional Kabbalah
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  8468. Yeah, because one isn't real
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  8469. but seriously though
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  8470. Still coming!
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  8471. Bust out your kylixes!
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  8472. Below? Bedrock
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  8473. It wasn't left out of the Bible, it wasn't even mentioned in the Decretum Gelasianum
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  8474. Thanks for the sub!
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  8475. yes'm
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  8476. yep!
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  8477. Verily
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  8478. Yep and hyper-localized
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  8479. Thanks for sticking around !
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  8480. http://www.workofthechariot.com/TextFiles/Translations-ShirQoma.html
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  8481. Thanks for the support!
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  8482. It could be, that idea has been floated
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  8483. the wood worms....
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  8484. Thanks, friend!
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  8485. In the works!
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  8486. Nah, it's from oui and ja
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  8487. disquisitionum magicarum libri sex by Martin del Rio
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  8488. Yep
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  8489. Many thanks!
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  8490. I would probably just let her do the last episode of this series!
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  8491.  @yochanan770  for real
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  8492. This is is just a usual weekly episode, the Agrippa course is still running as usual.
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  8493. The first Lilith video dropped on Nov 18, 2022.
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  8494. Everyone back then, not just Romans
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  8495. I follow the teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan
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  8496. Depends on the ending
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  8497. Got scrapped, now tin cans in Ohio. RIP
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  8498. You don't even wanna know about the bug transformer - apparently he was working for Ted Bundy. Sad end.
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  8499. I bet they are.
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  8500. Thanks for the donation!
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  8501. Thanks so much - hope you are well!
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  8502. I field both empiricism and rationalism - they're not assumptions, I'm literally naming them as such
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  8503. Thanks it was nice to meet her and thanks for being a fan of the channel!
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  8504. Fun!
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  8505. huh?
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  8506. Virtually impossible but maybe....
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  8507. often.
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  8508. Thank you! Hope you find the other content interesting as well!
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  8509. It's literally a photo of George Clarke
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  8510. trinitite
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  8511. Yeah bay city girl I hear
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  8512. You think this is boring ? I love this kind of stuff
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  8513. Glad you found the content rewarding!
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  8514. dog snoring
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  8515. Won't find that, whatever that is, here
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  8516. Like the mysteries?
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  8517. Day early and no megillah but, sure, why not ?
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  8518. If so then every single Ms does this - no two are exact, far from it
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  8519. Consulted that one too!
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  8520. huh?
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  8521. Many thanks, friend!
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  8522. Yeah, it's basically how I dress
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  8523. I feel you
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  8524. The taussig edition.
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  8525. Thanks for watching!
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  8526. If he existed he was an Israelite, probably looked like any other levantine person.
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  8527. Finkel but the metal here is like metal as in music the skulls were regular human skulls
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  8528. Good question!
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  8529. The Japanese puzzle boxes ?
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  8530. Why do you think that?
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  8531. I doubt it - the sheer volume of anti-lilith amulets makes it clear that people were deeply terrified of her
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  8532. Kinda worthless
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  8533. t h i s - Mega Man 2 Dr. Wiley Stage 1 music is the J A M of all time
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  8534. When I figure out how to close that portal in the witch house ;)
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  8535. Many thanks!
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  8536. No scholar has taken the Golden Bough seriously for more than 50 years.
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  8537. I doubt it - religions are wildly differing, especially in fine
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  8538. Now I'll always think of the klippot as 🫔
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  8539. Nah, other great channels have covered it well enough
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  8540. You shouldn't
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  8541. With food prices what they are I think that's terrifying
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  8542. even scarier
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  8543. Appears that way
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  8544. Alchemy codenames and symbols
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  8545. Thank you for watching - hope you stick around!
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  8546. Interesting!
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  8547. Right, I know that's a modern usage but I'm not sure it's a classical usage.
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  8548. I got a shockingly good deal on this bottle and 500 ml of the absinthe is actually going to be sold for samples to recoup the cost. So, yeah - costly, but in this case, not so much.
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  8549. Welcome!
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  8550. The CH is sometimes obscure but not terribly difficult - any sections you find particularly difficult?
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  8551. I'm sure if it had substance someone would have jumped on it. But one of the most famous 'decipherments' claimed it was a Cathar manual too!
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  8552. Thanks for watching!
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  8553. Yeah, I should have used N and not X
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  8554. I hope not
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  8555. Now that you mention it....
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  8556. Humor you say...
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  8557. Or think you can
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  8558. Soon-ish
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  8559. Wax
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  8560. Yep, it's widely available.
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  8561. No one denies the massacres
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  8562. Probably just one ultimate will of which everything we perceive is a manifestation of that Will, including our 'individual' will. I say probably because we only know of the Will indirectly - "through a veil" as he usually has it.
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  8563. Not chemically different - we've checked
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  8564. Thanks!
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  8565. Glad it was helpful!
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  8566. Definitely a real thing
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  8567. They charge a ton more for printing on two sides
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  8568. It was the easiest to deal with
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  8569. Why? The text itself is 'esoterica' strictu sensu.
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  8570.  @andrearussell8794  nope.
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  8571. Nice, but he purchased the 6 volume edition along with the tcb, which is a kind of appendix.
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  8572. yep!
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  8573. Nothing says 'gothic' like a literally poisonous relic from the Victorian-ish past :)
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  8574. Thanks for this kind comment, especially coming from another educator. It's such a pity the way things are, especially for the students. I'm just very thankful to have a venue to do educational work and reach people at no cost to them because people are willing to support that project. It means a ton to me. Many thanks for your support and kind words!
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  8575. Nah, that's a 20th century channeled text
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  8576. Says you ;)
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  8577. There are tons of things older than this
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  8578. Yeah myths aren't history - humans have existed for 250000 years
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  8579. I suspect that's basically correct, though I doubt Jesus was a Judean Che or anything, probably just an apocalyptic preacher expecting an immanent judgement by God, especially on the Romans. He caused a riot in J'lem during passover and that was more than enough for the Romans to execute him.
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  8580. The Greek abbreviation for his name IHC XPC
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  8581. That's real money, Brill money 💰
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  8582. Yep
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  8583. Thanks!
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  8584. He doesn't
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  8585. There's no such thing
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  8586. The video is on the channel let me know if you can't find it
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  8587. No, not really. Just the readings at the end of the videos.
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  8588. Sometime this year!
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  8589. huh?
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  8590. As an established scholar - sure. As an up and coming scholar trying to find a job and pushing this line, unlikely.
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  8591. Maybe but I don't work much in the academy - but would be happy to advocate for this content in the academy
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  8592. Oh let me find my soapbox...
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  8593. Probably not
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  8594. Thanks so much for saying so and for watching!
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  8595. You ain't gonna get those answers here ;)
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  8596. T h i s
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  8597. I'm pretty sure that most people taught tzimtzum are taught literal tzimtzum.
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  8598. Yep, there is. K - Trad. Jewish, C - Christian, Q - Hermetic/Occult
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  8599. Source?
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  8600. Thanks Rus and thanks for encouraging me to start the channel!
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  8601. 🏅🏅
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  8602. :) Thanks for watching, Peter!
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  8603. It's not. It's mostly built on an old Roman necropolis
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  8604. Neat - thanks for this content!
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  8605. Certainly going to happen!
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  8606. Much appreciated!
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  8607. Cheap, skimpy outfits rarely make for sexy
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  8608. Thanks !
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  8609. :) Thanks, doing my best to make solid content!
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  8610. nope, just a normie academic.
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  8611. Welcome aboard!
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  8612. Neat - I've heard there really isn't much from the period left in the area (aside from the church). If you happen to walk past, let him know I say "Etharzi!"
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  8613. Oh yeah - I despise them.
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  8614. ha!
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  8615. Thanks!
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  8616. In the description
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  8617. I don't think so, you'll need to read the rest of de anima on light of the metaphysical to see why - it had to do with the role of actualization in his general concept of motion. So not "active" and "potential" how we might use them
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  8618. a pitty!
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  8619. If I could, I would.
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  8620. Probably !
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  8621. They almost did and literally fled the scene to avoid it.
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  8622. No, not really
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  8623. yep, I have a video on Thoth
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  8624. brass cup?
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  8625. Kinda did
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  8626. Oldness
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  8627. There really isn't a 'greater' key but a corpus of texts falling under the Clavicula Salomonis genre.
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  8628. Nah
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  8629. Mosin nagant
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  8630. Thanks for saying so - hope you find the content rewarding!
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  8631. Nope nope nope
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  8632. They have scientists, analysis and now AI working 24-7-365 - I'm not saying there are no mysteries left, but I think they've largely plundered the natural world. "Plundered" being the key word there. @JonOnraet 
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  8633. Never heard the second two
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  8634. me neither - hence me blurring them out to prevent anyone watching this channel, at least, from doing so.
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  8635. I don't monetize episodes that aren't 'content driven' - doesn't seem fair to make you watch ads when I'm not producing something specifically as content for the channel.
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  8636. So kind! Thank so much!
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  8637. See my faq
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  8638. An interesting read - we'll only know as more fragments become published!
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  8639. I doubt there would have been a story in the first place
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  8640. Orval for life
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  8641. my community ? Nah - they love this kinda stuff!
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  8642. :) Thanks!
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  8643. same
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  8644. I don't totally agree here but I've never personally seen the appeal of dualism or gnosticism
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  8645. Thanks for this generous donation!
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  8646. Great comment ;)
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  8647. Thanks - hope you stick around!
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  8648. It was just made up and in the middle ages
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  8649. It's a reconstruction - curious why it matters for you?
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  8650. Sounds interesting - glad the mythology is meaningful for you!
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  8651. I mentioned one in this episode and I've done an episode about it
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  8652. Many, many thanks for this generous donation to the channel!
    1
  8653. One must obey the natural light (of reason)
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  8654. Why not both?
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  8655. You know, I've never read Philip K Dick.
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  8656. Yep! Glad you find the content interesting!
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  8657. Bastards!
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  8658. Watch the video again, I mentioned it
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  8659. Thanks for the support!
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  8660. at least it didn't hurt the absinthe!
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  8661. I'm with you
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  8662. That they are real gems simply made by art. I think only we fetishize the natural ones.
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  8663. Glad you did!
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  8664. I think someone in the comments left a link. It's on YouTube
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  8665. You're welcome to contact me via my website
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  8666. I don't really have much on the way of magic stuff, and then mostly ironically then
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  8667. I've been on there - Derek is a wonderful guy!
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  8668. Kind and definitely not true
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  8669. I did an episode on the war scroll, for what it's worth
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  8670. g-dspeed and good luck!
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  8671. Nope - there is simply no reliable critical edition / translation of the text in English, to my knowledge, as of early 2021.
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  8672. Tziruf
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  8673. Love in mi from ms
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  8674. But it's a ת though
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  8675. It's Trinitite!
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  8676. It's easily available online - not a great one, but a free one.
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  8677. It's nonsense
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  8678. Both and
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  8679. Oh no
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  8680. Just one really, did kendo and iaido when I was younger #mallninja
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  8681. on this video and not others?
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  8682. Odd, the setup on every video is exactly the same
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  8683. If you say so :)
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  8684. Who knows? :)
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  8685. Such a neat job! Feel free to share the episode. I've only had the chance to visit once and I'd love to come back!
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  8686. No, not really
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  8687. That's true in some cases but, by no means, all.
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  8688. I'm not
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  8689. We gotta demand reinstatement - this is absurd
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  8690. I very much doubt it
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  8691. Yep - and kinda covered him, as Pseudo-Geber in another episode on the Summa Perfectionis!
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  8692. What rabbi (or person) was named Samael?
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  8693.  @gavinshriamneon  Yep, I know who Gamaliel (גמליאל) - there were at least two important ones - but Klippah is גמיאל, they may sound similar in English but they are different in Hebrew and come from different shoreshim.
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  8694. Japanese puzzle boxes!
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  8695. It was the same one, just driving that point home.
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  8696. That's my sense of humor so much as it is
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  8697. Great name ! Gripps for short
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  8698. Crowley certainly held that position early on and clearly rejected it later in life, especially in terms of the HGA, goetic spirits, etc. As for Jung, he clearly thought alchemy was a precursor to psychology and argued for that position over hundreds of pages cherry-picking 1700 years of alchemical documents to 'support' that argument. It's a methodological nightmare, especially given what we now know about the actual history of alchemy. Of course, Jung can make up what he likes but to argue that the alchemists were unconsciously developing 'psychology' is farcical.
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  8699. Glad it was helpful!
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  8700. I mean "sky father made clay man, then rib woman who got tricked by a talking snake which requires divine child sacrifice to fix it all resulting in zombie rabbi" is, well, that's enough for me
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  8701. s u b t e x t ;)
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  8702. Probably not
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