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TONIGHT!

come with me, to a beautiful place stuck long in the past...

MYSELF & the MEAT PLANET CREW ( @cryptotheism , @sanitymakesposts , @jame7t ) will be watching KICKASSIA, the NOSTALGIA CRITIC'S FIRST MOVIE.

7PM EASTERN, 6PM CENTRAL

will you remember it, so we don't have to...?

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i want my toy organ

can you egt chains attached to stuff like that

[cryptotheism]

TONIGHT!

come with me, to a beautiful place stuck long in the past...

MYSELF & the MEAT PLANET CREW ( @cryptotheism , @sanitymakesposts , @jame7t ) will be watching KICKASSIA, the NOSTALGIA CRITIC'S FIRST MOVIE.

will you remember it, so we don't have to...?

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where to begin w/ hermetic literature or general hermeticism?

Best working translation is gonna be the Copenhaven translation. Accept ahead of time that this is an extremely diverse group of texts. Almost all of them are in conversation with some contemporary elements of late Roman religion and philosophy like Platonism and Gnosticism.

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Even that is pretty late in victorian occultism. For most of the era, the victorian's very much saw the spirits of ouija boards and seances to be the souls of the departed. Their conception of ghosts was a combination of Swedenborg (some souls stick around on earth as angels) and Mesmer (reality is made of thought-energy goo which can be manipulated with magnets).

I never understood what the popular conception of ghosts is. Are they the souls of dead people who haven't moved on, or are they a supernatural imprint left behind in the world (while the actual soul did move on) ?

Theyre generally the souls of dead people who haven't been able to move on. According to most monotheistic religions, that isn't possible and doesn't happen, but that hasn't stopped anyone. The popular conception of ghosts is extremely similar to Greco-Roman beliefs about daimones.

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I never understood what the popular conception of ghosts is. Are they the souls of dead people who haven't moved on, or are they a supernatural imprint left behind in the world (while the actual soul did move on) ?

Theyre generally the souls of dead people who haven't been able to move on. According to most monotheistic religions, that isn't possible and doesn't happen, but that hasn't stopped anyone. The popular conception of ghosts is extremely similar to Greco-Roman beliefs about daimones.

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Your enemies are robots who are poisoned by background religious thought. They have allowed the CALVINISM to seep in and poison their motives. While you (pure) have shed such things.

There is an embarrassing impulse among center-liberals calling themselves leftists to fixate on some bilious Christian theologian and blame them for everything. The banana and the coffee you had for breakfast came to you up a mountain of corpses that you didn't ask to be born on top of, and any Leftist pointing this out is simply a SECRET CALVINIST who HATES PLEASURE.

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There is an embarrassing impulse among center-liberals calling themselves leftists to fixate on some bilious Christian theologian and blame them for everything. The banana and the coffee you had for breakfast came to you up a mountain of corpses that you didn't ask to be born on top of, and any Leftist pointing this out is simply a SECRET CALVINIST who HATES PLEASURE.

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Generally speaking my previous attempts at a discord server have gone awfully, but this time it seems to have settled into a method to share illicit PDFs of books and I think I'm okay with that.

Twitch streaming as a book club has been a really fun experience. It forces me to have an operational understanding of whatever I'm reading that week. Can't just read Plotinus, gotta talk about him while playing Warframe.

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Twitch streaming as a book club has been a really fun experience. It forces me to have an operational understanding of whatever I'm reading that week. Can't just read Plotinus, gotta talk about him while playing Warframe.

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could i get some help getting groceries and meds? paying rent put my account in the negatives and i rly need my meds to function

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and they say theres nothing worthwhile on twitter

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please elaborate on ghosts as pollution

If you leave a corpse in a river and it fucks up the river, that's pollution. If you leave a soul in a doll so it fucks up a house, that's pollution. Human waste product that requires proper ecological reintegration. Simple as.

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Plotinus wrote a lot, but his major work is called The Enneads, literally “the nine-nesses.” He wrote the material, but it was organized by his major student and biographer Porphyry, who did quite a bit of chopping and screwing to make it all fit into chunks of nine. One Ennead is even cut-and-pasted in the middle of a sentence. It is impossible to give a crash course in Plotinus. Or, it is impossible according to Plotinus. His philosophy is performative in the sense that you have to actually sit down, read the Enneads cover-to-cover, and puzzle it out for your damn self. That process of puzzling out is philosophically important to Plotinus. He refers to it as “noesis” literally “the process of knowing.” Therefore, there is no quick guide version of Plotinus that could accurately represent Plotinus’s actual philosophy. He would see such things as fundamentally incomplete. 

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLOTINUS:

All things arise from an infinite, ineffable, utterly and completely, hyper-transcendent philosophical concept called The One. The only true thing you can say about The One, is that it is The One. It is beyond language. Contemplation of The One can only be done through apophasis, un-saying. The One is beyond all thought, and not beyond all thought. The One is both beyond language, and not beyond language. Etc. It is sort of a philosophical singularity, a thinking man’s black hole that collapses all knowledge into itself. Infinite, unchanging, beyond time and quality, existing in a form of existence that is not existence, as a paradoxical superposition of all potential statements. 

Plotinus! The Philosopher Himself! Today on Patreon.

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Western Esotericism begins with Plato. Don’t get scared. I am not about to spend the next several pages explaining all of classical philosophy to you. Our focus is more specific. The purpose of this text, dear reader, is to teach you how to approach a text like an esotericist. When faced with an unfamiliar writer, our first goal is to keep an eye out for three things: Style, Epistemology, and Physics. What kind of writer are we dealing with? Where does knowledge come from? What is the world made of? If you understand these three things, you’ve done 80% of the work.  Stylistically, Plato is a trickster. His writing is structured in the form of dialogues. These are extended literary arguments between two characters. Usually, between one of Plato’s students, and Socrates.* He debates questions like What is bravery? What is truth? What is friendship? By the end of the dialogue, the answer is almost always a resounding Who the Hell Knows? 

The birth of Western Esotericism, today on Patreon.

*read, Plato pretending to be Socrates

[cryptotheism]

Western Esotericism begins with Plato. Don’t get scared. I am not about to spend the next several pages explaining all of classical philosophy to you. Our focus is more specific. The purpose of this text, dear reader, is to teach you how to approach a text like an esotericist. When faced with an unfamiliar writer, our first goal is to keep an eye out for three things: Style, Epistemology, and Physics. What kind of writer are we dealing with? Where does knowledge come from? What is the world made of? If you understand these three things, you’ve done 80% of the work.  Stylistically, Plato is a trickster. His writing is structured in the form of dialogues. These are extended literary arguments between two characters. Usually, between one of Plato’s students, and Socrates.* He debates questions like What is bravery? What is truth? What is friendship? By the end of the dialogue, the answer is almost always a resounding Who the Hell Knows? 

The birth of Western Esotericism, today on Patreon.

*read, Plato pretending to be Socrates