CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
Young Crowley:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire Engla...
2024-08-17 15:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, occult trendsetter, and innovative antisemite, Mme Helena Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica.
(She combined ...
2024-08-17 15:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, occult trendsetter, and innovative antisemite, Mme Helena Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica.
(She combined ...
2024-08-12 15:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
(She combined Spiritualism with ...
2024-07-20 16:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmas...
2024-07-19 17:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmas...
2024-07-17 16:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmas...
2024-07-16 17:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostIT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
ToDo:
Add to the sidebars about her two major texts
Roots:
A generalized western mysticism
James Fenimore Cooper novels about native americans
Reacting to Spiritualism
Before her we need a ...
2024-07-09 17:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy where adherents and critics alike must spend significant effort to find it. The enlightenment was a spotlight on magical thought, a complex intellectual movement that sought to deny magic its ...
2024-07-05 16:38:40 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is different now. That goes without saying. I could begin every section of this book by saying “magic is different now” but the enlightenment put some serious elbow grease into it. Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy w...
2024-06-29 16:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is different now. That goes without saying. I could begin every section of this book by saying “magic is different now” but the enlightenment put some serious elbow grease into it. Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy w...
2024-06-27 16:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Where the Renaissance was dominated by clerical thinkers attempting to plumb the depths of their various theologies, the Enlightenment was all about shining the light of reason upon the wisdom of tradition. Renaissance magic does not exactly thrive under the light of reason. In fa...
2024-06-18 16:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The year is 1610. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science,...
2024-06-10 16:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostWELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The year is 1610. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science,...
2024-06-05 16:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rat...
2024-06-01 17:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rat...
2024-05-29 18:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rat...
2024-05-25 17:02:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rat...
2024-05-23 16:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostThere is no better introduction to the occult than Tarot. The original Rider-Waite-Smith was developed to be an introductory tool for broader concepts in western esotericism. It’s all in there. The four elements, the seven classical planets, the twelve zodiacs, the twenty-two paths. Each card represents an intersection of t...
2024-05-14 17:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
Sulfur Mercury Theory
Organic Matter
Proto-Iatrochemistry
Panacea
Transmutation of base m...
2024-04-26 16:27:13 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
Sulfur Mercury Theory
Organic Matter
Proto-Iatrochemistry
Panacea
Transmutation of base m...
2024-04-19 16:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
Sulfur Mercury Theory
Organic Matter
Proto-Iatrochemistry
Panacea
Transmutation of base m...
2024-04-10 16:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
Sulfur Mercury Theory
Organic Matter
Proto-Iatrochemistry
Panacea
Transmutation of base m...
2024-04-09 16:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alche...
2024-03-13 16:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alche...
2024-03-09 17:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alche...
2024-03-07 17:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-...
2024-03-06 16:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-...
2024-03-01 17:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-...
2024-01-25 17:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-...
2024-01-23 18:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
