Forwarded from Tim
Encountering yappologists is an occupational hazard
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Richard Ruach's Research Center
Encountering yappologists is an occupational hazard
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Occult Q&A (Quarterly Hangout)
Quarterly Livestream hangout. Come and chill in chat, while we all talk about the Western Esoteric Tradition.
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Forwarded from 𝕊𝕠𝕝 ℍ𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟 ☀️
Valentinian Gnosticism
Valentinian Christianity was a prominent 2nd-century Christian Gnostic movement founded by Valentinus (c. 100–180 AD), that distinguished itself through a sophisticated synthesis of Christian theology, Platonic philosophy, and Hellenistic mysticism, positing salvation primarily through gnosis, which is the esoteric, liberating knowledge of one's divine essence. Its cosmology began with a transcendent, incomprehensible Bythos (Father) from whom thirty divine Aeons emanated into the perfect Pleroma (Fullness), a realm of divine harmony. This harmony was disrupted by Sophia's hubris, her attempt to comprehend Bythos or create without a consort, leading to her fall and the accidental morphing of matter and wisdom, producing duality. From this fallen state, the Demiurge, a lesser, ignorant, yet necessary deity, who is identified with the Old Testament god, fashioned the flawed material realm.
Humanity, in this system, comprised three distinct types: pneumatics (spirituals), bearing a divine spark from Sophia (wisdom) and destined for the Pleroma via gnosis; psychics (soulish), ordinary Christians achieving a lesser salvation through faith in an intermediate realm with the Demiurge; and hylics (material), bound to perish in matter. Salvation, revealed by Christos, who possessed an illusory, Docetic body, aimed to awaken the divine spark within pneumatics. Valentinians engaged in allegorical interpretations of noscriptures, particularly John and Paul, and practiced rituals such as baptism, chrism, Eucharist, and the supreme bridal chamber rite, symbolizing spiritual union and the rectification of primordial separation. The movement, propagated by disciples like Ptolemy and Heracleon, flourished across Rome, Egypt, and Syria, developing Eastern and Western branches.
Valentinian Christianity was a prominent 2nd-century Christian Gnostic movement founded by Valentinus (c. 100–180 AD), that distinguished itself through a sophisticated synthesis of Christian theology, Platonic philosophy, and Hellenistic mysticism, positing salvation primarily through gnosis, which is the esoteric, liberating knowledge of one's divine essence. Its cosmology began with a transcendent, incomprehensible Bythos (Father) from whom thirty divine Aeons emanated into the perfect Pleroma (Fullness), a realm of divine harmony. This harmony was disrupted by Sophia's hubris, her attempt to comprehend Bythos or create without a consort, leading to her fall and the accidental morphing of matter and wisdom, producing duality. From this fallen state, the Demiurge, a lesser, ignorant, yet necessary deity, who is identified with the Old Testament god, fashioned the flawed material realm.
Humanity, in this system, comprised three distinct types: pneumatics (spirituals), bearing a divine spark from Sophia (wisdom) and destined for the Pleroma via gnosis; psychics (soulish), ordinary Christians achieving a lesser salvation through faith in an intermediate realm with the Demiurge; and hylics (material), bound to perish in matter. Salvation, revealed by Christos, who possessed an illusory, Docetic body, aimed to awaken the divine spark within pneumatics. Valentinians engaged in allegorical interpretations of noscriptures, particularly John and Paul, and practiced rituals such as baptism, chrism, Eucharist, and the supreme bridal chamber rite, symbolizing spiritual union and the rectification of primordial separation. The movement, propagated by disciples like Ptolemy and Heracleon, flourished across Rome, Egypt, and Syria, developing Eastern and Western branches.
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Forwarded from SRPH
Every book you open is less about the story within and more about the architecture of your own mind building itself in silence. The giant that reads while hidden inside the house is not some myth—it is you, the part of you that grows in proportion to the weight of the words you consume. The paradox is that knowledge makes you appear smaller in your own eyes, yet larger in the eyes of the world. What you mistake for being overwhelmed is actually the foundation being laid for thoughts you haven’t even earned the questions for yet.
The greater the unknown, the smaller the self imagines itself to be—yet only by being small can it hold infinity. A vessel too rigid shatters in the currents of the vast, but emptiness bends and contains the boundless. The paradox: you become infinite not by expansion, but by yielding to your own insignificance where the less you are, the more you can hold.
The greater the unknown, the smaller the self imagines itself to be—yet only by being small can it hold infinity. A vessel too rigid shatters in the currents of the vast, but emptiness bends and contains the boundless. The paradox: you become infinite not by expansion, but by yielding to your own insignificance where the less you are, the more you can hold.
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
"This is where the story usually ends in the modern telling. The “red pill” moment is treated as the finish line. You get your medal for perception, you join the club of the disillusioned, and you spend the rest of your days polishing your new identity as someone who “knows.” You trade one set of memes for another. You swap the blue-pill lies for red-pill truths, and you think the job is done. You’ve exchanged one form of sleep for a more stimulating dream, one where you’re the hero who has figured it all out."
https://scottmallett.substack.com/p/the-red-pill-alone-is-useless-gurdjieff
https://scottmallett.substack.com/p/the-red-pill-alone-is-useless-gurdjieff
Substack
The Red Pill Alone is Useless: Gurdjieff on the Transformation of Shock into Being
On the Peril of Waking Up Only to Fall Asleep Again in a Slightly More Interesting Dream
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Forwarded from Portal Ibis
The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, Third Day by Johfra Bosschart (1919 - 1998)
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Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
Substack debut, give a wigga a follow
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https://substack.com/@esotericdixiedharma/note/p-174733923?r=5y14ud
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https://substack.com/@esotericdixiedharma/note/p-174733923?r=5y14ud
Substack
Tantra, Imagination, and the Nature of Experience
The experience makes the man.
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Forwarded from Portal Ibis
"…Nature praises me. Of her I am born; her I follow. She knows me, and I know her. The light which is in her I have beheld in her; outside, too, I have proved the same in the figure of the microcosm, and found it in that universe."
— Paracelsus, The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists
Art: Collection of alchemical and mystical drawings and texts, 1800s
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
— Paracelsus, The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists
Art: Collection of alchemical and mystical drawings and texts, 1800s
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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