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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2021 15:53:41 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2021 16:44:24 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 30, 2021 15:49:43 GMT
New Age and Neopagan Magic www.academia.edu/11296663/New_Age_and_Neopagan_MagicPre-publication page proofs of my chapter in _The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West_, ed. by David J. Collins. This overview presents a discussion of new anthropological perspectives on the nature of magic, then analyzes how both New Age and modern Pagan movements conceive and make use of magic. It argues that while New Age practitioners often use scientific discourse to rationalize belief, modern Pagans embrace magic as a vehicle for altering consciousness and re-enchanting the world. Both approaches are ultimately products of modernity: not rejections of it, but ways of coping with a disenchanted universe and the alienation associated with it.
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2021 17:22:46 GMT
The Serpent Rises in the West: Positive Orientalism and Reinterpretation of Tantra in the Western Left-Hand Path www.academia.edu/11761556/The_Serpent_Rises_in_the_West_Positive_Orientalism_and_Reinterpretation_of_Tantra_in_the_Western_Left_Hand_PathReligion, Magic, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Western Esotericism (History), Occultism, Tantra, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Occult Esoteric Magick Spirituality, Left-Hand Path
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2021 15:52:53 GMT
Summary of HOLY WEDDING, THE INCLUSION OF SYNCHRONICITY AND HERMETIC PRINCIPLES IN THE WORLDVIEW OF THE 21ST CENTURY; ((c) Copyright 2015-2021 by Remo F. Roth, Zurich, Switzerland) www.academia.edu/10780682/Summary_of_HOLY_WEDDING_THE_INCLUSION_OF_SYNCHRONICITY_AND_HERMETIC_PRINCIPLES_IN_THE_WORLDVIEW_OF_THE_21ST_CENTURY_c_Copyright_2015_2021_by_Remo_F_Roth_Zurich_Switzerland_It was C.G. Jung who first mentioned the idea of a more universal aspect of sexuality. In his work AION he criticized the purely concretist interpretation of the term sexuality by Sigmund Freud. He was convinced that the Gnostics, who looked for the “procreative nature of the Whole in the procreative seed”, did not mean just biological sexuality, because they still knew the deep truth that “man’s procreative power is only a special instance of the ‘procreative nature of the Whole’.” It is the intention of this book to look behind the Freudian concretist view and give a new interpretation of the alchemical text Rosarium Philosophorum with its main content of the coniunctio, the sexual intercourse of God and the Goddess for the sake of new creation and incarnation. This way, we can understand the phenomenology of the alchemical Holy Wedding, coniunctio or hierosgamos on a deeper, archetypal or even psychophysical level. In the images of the Rosarium one recognizes the pattern of a creation myth, wherein in contrast to most other archaic myths, man is included as a responsibly acting co-creator.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2021 15:44:06 GMT
Spiritual Alchemy from the Age of Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood, 1600–1900 www.academia.edu/35197521/Spiritual_Alchemy_from_the_Age_of_Jacob_Boehme_to_Mary_Anne_Atwood_1600_1900PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2017. WINNER OF THE ESSWE THESIS PRIZE 2019. ‘Spiritual alchemy’ is a contested term that is often accompanied by far-reaching claims about the presumed essence of alchemy. Despite the troubled past of this term, this study reclaims ‘spiritual alchemy’ as a precisely definable category for historical research. The term stands for the practical pursuit of inward but physically real transmutation, its goal being the reversal of the Fall as a preparation for the resurrection of the dead at the Last Judgment. Spiritual alchemy in this sense first developed around the turn of the seventeenth century, due to the confluence of two important currents: German mysticism and alchemical Paracelsianism. In underground networks of religious dissenters, mystical and spiritualist as well as alchemical and Paracelsian writings circulated side by side. In this context, spiritual alchemy eventually reached Jacob Boehme. According to his understanding, laboratory alchemy was but a lesser, grossly material reflection of spiritual alchemy. Drawing extensively on the manuscript record, this study traces how Boehme’s spiritual alchemy ultimately came to shape Mary Anne Atwood’s enduringly popular 'Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery'. It appears that a formerly minor strand of early-modern alchemy exerted crucial influence on this first major presentation of modern alchemy.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2021 20:42:14 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2021 15:48:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2021 15:41:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2021 16:09:41 GMT
The nature, structure, and role of the soul in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn www.academia.edu/36353901/The_nature_structure_and_role_of_the_soul_in_the_Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_DawnThe Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a 19th century English society engaged in the creation of a systematic form of western esotericism. Its founders created a synthesis of previous strands of esotericism and spiritual thought that had existed in Europe. One aspect of this synthesis was the creation of a new vision of the soul. This soul went beyond a simple mixing of elements from earlier traditions and provided an integral portion of the spiritual vision that gave an overall purpose to the spiritual practices of the Golden Dawn. A discussion of the nature and structure of this soul, its key influences, and unique aspects gives clarity to some of the spiritual goals and vision of the Golden Dawn as a system of spiritual practice. This demonstrates a system of thought unique to the end of the nineteenth century that places it with other spiritual traditions of the world.
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2021 15:44:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2021 16:37:08 GMT
Esotericism Recorded: Text, Scripture, and Parascripture www.academia.edu/28981271/Esotericism_Recorded_Text_Scripture_and_ParascriptureWhy do people who like Gnostic literature also like David Lynch movies? Here, I try to answer this question via an introductory survey of media and communicative strategies favored in discourses and artefacts we might call "esoteric," from ancient divination through Kabbalah and alchemy to music videos, film, and anime. This is the one and only time I do pop culture.
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2021 21:44:20 GMT
'...there is nothing new under the sun...'
"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
~J. Michael Straczynski
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2021 15:47:30 GMT
Marketing Magicians of the Shopocalypse: Eros, Advertising, and... the End of the World? www.academia.edu/19673574/Marketing_Magicians_of_the_Shopocalypse_Eros_Advertising_and_the_End_of_the_WorldThe modern marketing profession is not merely the child of 20th century capitalism. It is also an heir to the theories and traditions of Renaissance magic. In particular, Giordano Bruno’s techniques of “bonding” and his special version of the classical “art of memory” provide the basis for especially effective forms of integrated brand promotion which combine the raw power of human desire with an appeal to the archetypal nature of the human psyche. This article examines the Classical origins of Bruno’s theories and techniques as well as some of their modern marketing usages in an attempt to ascertain how they have brought humanity to the brink of extinction through the stimulation of consumer frenzy, and how they might help us survive.
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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 16:30:37 GMT
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