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To celebrate the beginning of the Halloween season, we turn our attention to a magical experiment: using one disembodied intelligence, the Midjourney AI, to generate the shapes familiar to another set of disembodied intelligences: the spirits of the seven planets drawn from the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, translated by John Turner, 1555).
Excerpts from archive.org/details/b28777724/page/n5/mode/2up
01:50 - The Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of Saturn
03:25 - The Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of Jupiter
04:57 - The Familiar Forms of the Spirits of Mars
06:21 - Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of the Sun
07:39 - Familiar Shapes of the Spirits of Venus
09:07 - The Familiar Forms of the Spirits of Mercury
10:36 - The Forms Familiar to the Spirits of the Moon
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To celebrate the beginning of the Halloween season, we turn our attention to a magical experiment: using one disembodied intelligence, the Midjourney AI, to generate the shapes familiar to another set of disembodied intelligences: the spirits of the seven planets drawn from the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, translated by John Turner, 1555).
Excerpts from archive.org/details/b28777724/page/n5/mode/2up
01:50 - The Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of Saturn
03:25 - The Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of Jupiter
04:57 - The Familiar Forms of the Spirits of Mars
06:21 - Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of the Sun
07:39 - Familiar Shapes of the Spirits of Venus
09:07 - The Familiar Forms of the Spirits of Mercury
10:36 - The Forms Familiar to the Spirits of the Moon
Special thanks to all my generous patrons
Gilbert Serrano, Theron Mosbey, Ravyn, Fred Boekhorst, jXaviErre, John Newton, Mandy Szostek, Steve Miller, Nina Gryphon, Florence Beaufort, Ron Guinta, Marina Dubajić, Strieb Roman, Dr. Justin Sledge, and everyone else who has recently donated or joined me over at Patreon! Your support is most appreciated.
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![Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aSp5TYEDYwU/hqdefault.jpg "Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]
This is a re-recorded version of an older talk by Dan Attrell entitled What Athens Has Got To Do With Jerusalem: The Marriage of Greek and Jewish Themes in the Apocryphon of John
Artwork: Nicholas Roerich - Mother of the World
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![Angels, Daemons, and Magic in Ethiopian Religion [Interview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ab9bs4KF7YI/hqdefault.jpg "Angels, Daemons, and Magic in Ethiopian Religion [Interview]
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![The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aihFCuBEOyg/hqdefault.jpg "The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]
This is a reading of Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6 which pertains to the Hermetic/pseudo-Aristotelian concept of the “Perfect Nature” which is a kind of illumination experienced by the perfected sage at the summit of all learning in both the sciences and in philosophy – in other words, the knowledge of and conversation with ones higher genius. The passage draws on texts from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and describes a peculiar magical incubation ritual followed by another invocation ritual and a communal feast, with some speculations on what exactly is Perfect Nature and how it connects to the science of astral magic.
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Topics: Power as perceived within the Western Esoteric tradition; Philosophical musings on ability, authority, skill, aptitude, fitness, etc.; humanism; the seven planets as they relate to power; using power appropriately; and other informal thoughts on power conceived as monolith vs. traditionally conceived as pluriform.
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Here are the concluding 72 Theses of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandolas 900 Conclusiones in which he attempted to highlight the merits of Cabala as he understood it (in its purely Christian interpretation) in preparation for a debate before the Pope at Rome in 1486. A small handful of Picos theses were deemed heretical before he was allowed to hold the debate in public, and he was promptly excommunicated from the Church after writing an Apologia defending himself against the accusations of his committee. Today these 900 theses stand as a monument to the breadth (more so than the depth) of Renaissance thought, and they provide us with a window into the mind of the Latin Wests very first Christian cabalist, a man who sought to appropriate the Hebraica veritas in order to use it as a weapon against its original proponents, all in an attempt to immanentize the end times.
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