Theurgist
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[T]he Zen masters believed they could attain enlightenment through the power of their own will and intuition and rise above good and evil. But for Tanabe, this enlightenment led to Buddhism’s shameful complicity in the rise of authoritarian fascism in Japan. theurgist.substack.com/p/cultivatin...
Cultivating fraternity with the gods
As Iamblichus, Agrippa, and Tanabe knew, reason breaks down when it attempts to understand the world in purely logical and self-willed terms.
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Working overtime in the afterlife Doubtless, the early Christian interaction with angels continued. But it does not seem to be a part of everyday life as it would to have been to those who Paul castigates in his letter. theurgist.substack.com/p/working-ov...
Working overtime
Here we find purified souls literally helping maintain and run creation. They also help other souls to attain the heavenly dimensions.
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Citizens of the world The Neoplatonic Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions. theurgist.substack.com/p/citizens-o...
Citizens of the world
Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
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Overcoming Fate Are you strong enough to manifest your beauty to the world? Will you find the courage to rule fate and command the Good into being? Can you balance the warring powers inside you to drive the demons out? theurgist.substack.com/p/overcoming...
Overcoming Fate
Are you strong enough to manifest your beauty to the world? Will you find the courage to rule fate and command the Good into being?
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From these facts it’s almost impossible to mine meaning for humans, aside from a timeline of natural history and the bipedal animal’s place on it. Beyond an expert’s grasp of the technicalities, little of use is forthcoming for humans to begin to take meaning theurgist.substack.com/p/no-exit?r=...
No Exit
The mystery story is not about how life becomes dead matter but how life arose from dead matter.
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By these irresponsible actions, our leaders are walking into dark sociotechnical trap. Humanity abdicates its moral duties to software that can break things flawlessly. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-fault-...
The fault lies in the heart
If society collapses, it won’t be - as Coxon fears - because a malicious superintelligence defeated us. It will occur because humans chose to automate their own responsibility and watch passively.
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Scapegoating and the theurgic response Theurgists fiercely oppose the Christian idea that transferring moral fault and spiritual sin onto an innocent victim can bring true atonement. theurgist.substack.com/p/scapegoati...
Scapegoating and the theurgic response
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. - Nietzsche
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The Clancy Mistrial Pregnancy and its aftermath are fraught with numerous hormonal and neurological vulnerabilities. With the help of neurobiology we can see the actual processes that must take place after a woman give birth for the CARE system to kick in. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-clancy...
The Clancy Mistrial
Dostoevsky realized that because of her pregnancy, she was possessed by a transient psychosis and therefore was not culpable for the incident.
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Can atheists and pagans agree to disagree? As aggressive an atheist as Nietzsche was he recognized Kierkegaard’s importance. And Kierkegaard extolled Schopenhauer’s thought; he just thought he was a hypocrite, which he was. theurgist.substack.com/p/can-atheis...
Can atheists and pagans agree to disagree?
As with other isms, this would be a form of mind control. That would seem to be contrary to the spirit of what Plato and other pagan philosophers taught.
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The Clancy Trial Tragically, for Clancy, the evolutionary systems that are meant to kick in and save her children from harm did not. And we are left to ponder the terrifying mystery of Death in all its horrifying manifestations. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-clancy...
The Clancy Trial
[The justice system] does not comprehend the fact that reasoning activities in the cortex can be hijacked and subjugated by subcortical affective processes.
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The Only Cure: Recovering Freud for the Ages He dispels many myths about Freud—no, he wasn’t a lifelong cocaine addict—and illuminates the profound thought and revolutionary theories of the Viennese doctor. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-only-c...
The Only Cure: Recovering Freud for the Ages
I read Freud as a teenager - notably its use in literary criticism - and have always felt his light in the basement to be a beacon for clarity and health.
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City of the Sun In spiritual alchemy, the magus interacts with the outer world to foster healing in others through projection. theurgist.substack.com/p/city-of-th...
City of the Sun
For Kabbalists, one does not selfishly hoard the gifts of the divine for oneself but share with all. That is true loss of ego.
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Writing in the book of life Immersing yourself in the One without preparation in virtue will blow your nervous system to shreds. theurgist.substack.com/p/writing-in...
Writing in the book of life
Immersing yourself in the One without preparation in virtue will blow your nervous system to shreds.
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Writing in the book of life Iamblichus teaches that it is through the intermediaries of heroes, ancestors, and angels. theurgist.substack.com/p/writing-in...
Writing in the book of life
Immersing yourself in the One without preparation in virtue will blow your nervous system to shreds.
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Aliens to this world I have come at the behest of the preexistent one, that I may see those who are ours, those who have become aliens. theurgist.substack.com/p/aliens-to-...
Aliens to this world
It will open the gates on the path to the One.
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The war between reason and the passions The role of reason is to guide us to justice through living temperate lives with courage and wisdom. Through reason our command of our desires sets us on a proper path of beauty and desire for the Good. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-battle...
The battle between reason and the passions
In the technologizing of society and culture, a deformed variant of reason threatens to throttle the natural passions.
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[Iamblichus] had visited Egypt and learned directly Egyptian magical and theurgic practices from adepts of the Way of Hermes. We learn some of what he learned in his book, Egyptian Mysteries. theurgist.substack.com/p/carrier-of...
Carrier of stars
Theurgy and the Way of Hermes are a preliminary stage in an unfolding eternal drama of the divine. In them we see the first attempts at a rational, scientific knowledge of the divine and its workings.
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The spiritual combat To grow as spiritual selves, we also need to inculcate courage. theurgist.substack.com/p/the-spirit...
The spiritual combat
Anger at what we lack spiritually is a prelude to channeling the negative to positive virtues and spiritual insights.
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Killer in the blood [H]umans will obey orders to kill because men in white coats - authority figures - told them it was ok because they, the guys in white, had full authority and would take responsibility theurgist.substack.com/p/killer-in-...
Killer in the blood
[O]ccult practices can break through this social conditioning and set us on the path to self-discovery and expanding consciousness.
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The Comforter Who is this divinity pregnant with the power of Good and Intellect? Why does she emerge from light as our Mother spreading joy, dispelling sorrow? She is light... theurgist.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
The Comforter
She unbends a crooked world into a path of light leading out of oblivion.
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What is to be done? A theurgy that acknowledges the panpsychism that wends its way from Thales to Plato to Neoplatonism through Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is the same as that of Whitehead, Bergson, and James. theurgist.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
What is to be done?
This is not the time for a return to some supposed pristine, pure past. That is the way of the fundamentalisms and their tribal anachronisms.
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Caged birds in fat houses Courage is a cardinal virtue in Platonism and Neoplatonism. I have argued elsewhere that Kierkegaard’s Existentialism is an explication of courage as an element of his more widely known faith. open.substack.com/pub/theurgis...
Caged birds in fat houses
And like its clone in Revelation, it dupes the people into betraying their own self-interests and following the terror like a character in a horror film drawn to the monster that will kill them.
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The language of the gods For Agrippa, the virtue of the magician - are they a good or bad person - is the tincture that makes his magic effective. open.substack.com/pub/theurgis...
The language of the gods
For it’s not the same as sensory experience but the experience of life itself, the unfiltered thought that Henri Bergson calls intuition.
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The Hidden Spring Our destiny lies in the future, not the past. As amazing discoveries come to light about the true nature of our innermost minds, we will mold and fuse these into a spirituality that supports and guides us to our destiny in the stars. open.substack.com/pub/theurgis...
The Hidden Spring
As Theurgists, knowing our selves is paramount not only in our engagement with the mundane world but also the entities of other worlds/dimensions.
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BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
Retarding individual knowledge and spiritual growth [O]ne who takes the drug is “forcing” the divine to show itself. This is interesting because it correlates with Iamblichus’s problems with Goetia; that is, forcing the gods to perform for the Goetic practitioner. open.substack.com/pub/theurgis...
Retarding individual knowledge and spiritual growth
As to the use of mind-expanding substances, “the church” views them as inherently immoral and a grave sin.
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One reader writes of my book: “I tried to buy your book which wasn’t physically available in my country, so, disappointed, I downloaded the Kindle. So glad I did—I consumed it in one sitting —like a hymn, a sermon, a cosmic trip. Hekate, mother of the theurgists, ….” kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-ac...
What evidence is the Vatican probably hiding? The crazies hold that the Vatican libraries contain: * A time-machine * The Red Dragon, a grimoire said to be able to summon Lucifer himself * Genealogical records of Jesus and Mary Magdalene open.substack.com/pub/theurgis...
The truth shall set you free
Why hasn’t Bruno been rehabilitated or absolved? What lie of “the church” did he lay bare?
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