Christ the Eternal High Priest editionChristian Esotericism is the inner and/or mystical aspect of the Christian Religion, it includes:>Christian Gnosis (Clement of Alexandria)>Desert Fathers Spirituality (Evagrius Ponticus)>Catholic Contemplative Tradition (Bonaventure)>Hesychasm (Gregory Palamas)>Chivalry (Wolfram von Eschenbach)>Christian Alchemy (George Ripley)>Rhineland Mysticism (Meister Eckhart)>Christian Cabala (Johannes Reuchlin)>Paracelsianism (Paracelsus)>Rosicrucianism (Robert Fludd)>Christian theosophy (Jakob Böhme)>Martinism (Louise Claude de Saint-Martin)>Swedenborgianism (Swedenborg)>Magical Idealism (Novalis)>Romanticism (Baader)>Anthroposophy (Rudolf Steiner)>Sophiology (Sergei Bulgakov)>Christian Hermeticism (Valentin Tomberg)>Fourth Way (Boris Mouravieff)>Christian Traditionalism (Jean Borella)>Divine Love (James Padgett)And much more, so let's continue to talk about it!>Resources (WIP)https://www.john-uebersax.com/plato/cp.htmhttps://jacobboehmeonline.com/https://archive.org/details/awakening-to-divine-wisdom-christian-initiation-into-three-worl-nodrm_202202/mode/1uphttps://janelead.org/resources.htmlhttps://archive.org/details/bookofcontemplat00unde/https://archive.org/details/rudolf-steiner-book-collection/https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/free-ebooks-downloads/https://www.gornahoor.net/?page_id=47https://archive.org/details/meditations-on-the-tarot/https://files.catbox.moe/8n4061.djvu (Meditations on the Tarot)https://eliasartista.substack.com/https://passtheword.orghttps://catenabible.com/mt/
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Any recommendations for YouTube channels or podcasts that are mostly or at least somewhat theologically orthodox?
Nice to see this thread up again!Disclosure Day has a scene that has always intrigued me. in it after the bad guy has taken control of Jane's body he speaks about stopping Jane's boyfriend Daniel, as Jane declines from doing it the bad guy (Scanlon) proceeds to quote the bible in an interesting way:>Scanlon says: "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.">Scanlon asks Jane: "what did Christ say next?">Jane answers: "by my will, thine will be done."i find it interesting since christ never really continued his prayer at gethsemane with anything nor did he ever say what Jane replied with. i have been able to understand a lot of the more subtle messages in the movie but i still struggle to wrap my head around that one.i also tried googling that particular scene but nothing came up, usually movies of these caliber have high quality scenes uploaded to youtube immediately when they become available so i wonder why they are so hard to find with this one.
>>42841487Doesn’t get more esoteric than the pre-Abrahamic origins of the damn thing…https://youtu.be/htixqnIHibQ The Anunnaki had been giving plagues to humanity, in an effort to lower their numbers.Enlil, in command of Earth, wielder of lightning bolts, was displeased with Humanity and wanted them gone.Enki, his brother, took pity on humans and secretly taught them to worship only 1 Anunnaki at a time, the one responsible for the current plague, to basically guilt trip them into stopping the plague. This works a few times before Enlil realises what Enki has done and punishes him by causing his power over the waters to flood the people. Enki teaches Ziusudra to build an ark. (This was turned into the Noah story, even down to releasing the birds from the ark and saving animals.)So, Enlil finally agreed to spare the rest of humanity afterwards, allowing disease, child deaths and religious celibacy to control their population numbers.However, Enlil had learned from his brother. He saw how easy the humans were to control when they all worshipped only 1 Anunnaki. He could punish Enki again for his betrayal, and take control of all the Earth, by doing the same.Enlil became Yahweh of Armies, a monotheistic storm-god ruler that declared himself above all other “gods”. Enki was turned into “satan” for giving humanity forbidden knowledge (forbidden fruit)Enlil and Enki.Zeus and Prometheus.Yahweh and Satan.Humans filled in the gaps but the theme remained. A lightning-wielding entity punished another entity for giving humans forbidden knowledge.
How do you usually do meditation, /ceg/? I try to pray the Rosary and do Lectio Divina every now and then. Sometimes I will also take pauses of silence when praying Vespers to reflect on the Psalms or Antiphons for a brief moment.Lectio Divina has been the most helpful for me. I also used to read the Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis for meditation, but haven't done so in a long time?
>>42841487Thoughts on the Latin Mass? I will be attending for the first time this Sunday. Also, does anyone have that reading list that's often posted in these?
>every single lost jewed soul ITT
>>42843498Want to talk about it? Why do you think the historical Jesus isn't worth believing in spite of the independently written accounts?
Anybody read this? I just started on it
>>42843492I have been to the Latin Mass only two times, but it has been a very edifying and spiritually fulfilling experience.I recommend for a Sunday Mass (most likely a Sung Mass (Missal Cantata)) to follow along with a small booklet containing the Ordo Missae (Order of the Mass) if possible. You don't need to buy a whole layman's missal, that would be too confusing and tedious for a beginner. It is also possible for your first Mass just let sink in, going "passively" into it. While for the New Mass "active participation" has greatly increased, truly interior ("esoteric") spiritual participation has decreased significantly.Luckily for the Latin Mass, technically you don't "need" to do really anything except be present, meditate, maybe by the grace rod God even contemplate the Mystery of Mysteries; the priest and his altar servers will do the work, you just need to embrace it as it comes (and God as well).I highly recommend you though to read through the Scripture readings, or maybe even all the prayers (Propers of the Mass) through either the website divinum officium dot com or, which I even moreso recommend, get the free Sanctifica app.By doing so you will able to understand the mysteries more.You can read it the day before Mass (maybe try to do Lectio Divina with the Gospel reading?) or right before you go to Mass.In all you do, may God keep and bless you anon.Image: custom TLM wallpaper I made a month ago or so. Wanted to share here
>>42843889Missa Cantata*Typo because of my autocorrectAlso, I forgot to mention, >>42843492Definitely watch a few videos on YouTube that explain it in its basic structure so that you don't get confused too much. If you've been to Nova Ordo Mass, it has a similar structure but also very different.
>>42843823They're angry Christians prevent them from sacrificing human blood to dark gods.
>>42843889>>42843902Thanks anon. I should have clarified, I've been to the Novus Ordo all my life and have spoken with a friend who goes to TLM more regularly about how to conduct myself. I'm glad you mentioned that it's a more interior form of spiritual participation, because that's what I feel like I've been lacking lately. God bless!Also the wallpaper is kino
You guys get anything meaningful from the gnostic literature? I know it's always been considered evil or edgy full stop, but it feels like there's so many layers to it that there must be more to it than that, but looking at it positively just feels like wishful thinking.
>>42846084It’s a metaphor for an individual’s spiritual evolution. Sophia created the demiurge as your mind created your ego.
>>42841487Hi anon. Have you found — yet?
>>42846084No. It's just the evil retardation of dualism. Remember the Logos and be remembered!
>>42845020You're welcome anon.
Thoughts on the YouTube channel Ignotus Amicus? [https://youtube.com/@ignotus_amicus]I don't really watch him that often but he's somewhat interesting. He came to the Church through the reading of Valentin Tomberg.
>>42841940Nice image from Oedipus Aegyptiacus.It's astonishing how the most influential depiction of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life was not made by a Jewish rabbi, but by a Catholic priest, the great Athanasius Kircher.
A new translation of Origen's exposition of four types of prayer is coming. I watched the interview with the translator, linked in the article I posted below and I can say that the final part was pretty interesting, the translator says that he will maintain the plural pronoun "we" used by Origen because he thinks not (only) that the "we" represents Origen and his scribes but that it might have a more deeper meaning, then he says that he received criticism from other academics due to this idea, which seems to be the classic academic prejudice against any more esoteric interpretations of early patristic texts.https://www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/origen-on-prayer-a-new-translation-by-john-solheid
>>42841520Why do non-Jews worship the king of Jews?
And you, my son, according to the pious rule of our Hierarchical tradition, listen religiously to things spoken religiously, becoming inspired through instruction in inspired things; and when you have enfolded the Divine things in the secret recesses of your mind, guard them closely from the profane multitude as being uniform, for it is not lawful, as the Oracles say, to cast to swine the immaculate, shining, and beautifying loveliness of intelligible pearls.The Dionysian CorpusMany things, I well know, have escaped us, through length of time, that have dropped away unwritten. Whence, to aid the weakness of my memory, and provide for myself a salutary help to my recollection in a systematic arrangement of chapters, I necessarily make use of this form. There are then some things of which we have no recollection; for the power that was in the blessed men was great... Some things I purposely omit, in the exercise of a wise selection, afraid to write what I guarded against speaking: not grudging—for that were wrong—but fearing for my readers, lest they should stumble by taking them in a wrong sense; and, as the proverb says, we should be found "reaching a sword to a child..." Some things my treatise will hint; on some it will linger; some it will merely mention. It will try to speak imperceptibly, to exhibit secretly, and to demonstrate silently... The 'Stromata' will contain the truth mixed up in the dogmas of philosophy, or rather covered over and hidden, as the edible part of the nut in the shell. For, in my opinion, it is fitting that the seeds of truth be kept for the husbandmen of faith, and no others.Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata
>>42843498Jesus spent ages debating the forefathers of modern day rabbinical Jews and told them to their face they aren't following God properly, but for some reason every idiot on 4chan thinks the Jews created jesus, even though Jews will admit he existed, Jewish historians recorded him being crucified and he's in their Talmud being punished eternally. Yeah jesus is definitely Jewish though he'd love modern day Israel.
>>42847229Because He is not just the "king of the Jews", but the Pantokrator, the Ruler of All and the Cosmos, the King of everyone, every people, every nation, every tongue. Thus it is proper and just to give adoration to the Ruler of All, the sole God (Ego Dominus, et non est alius, Isaias xlv,11).>>42847416It's also that people are unable to differentiate between Second Temple Judaism and modern Rabbinical Judaism, but they conflate the two constantly. Thus both the anti-Christian and the Evangelical Zionist commit the same error, yet with different results
>>42847416>>42848100While I don't disagree with what you're saying, we should not overlook the fact that for many online right-wing christians these days, admiting (if they even do that) that Jesus was a jew is like an embarrassment, as if we should be ashamed about his race and that the israelites were God's people (with which He had a mixed relationship ofc). When the anti-christians see that "based" christians shy away from these facts, it only makes us look like a laughing stock, which we indeed end up being if we behave like that. That is not the mindset of Paul who wept for his people and never shied about his race whom he greatly loved even as they were disbelivers.
>>42848756No, we shouldn't be embarrassed of Christ's race, even if Him being an Israelite, a Judahite, is often used as a gotcha by wignat neopagans and the like. But I still think it is necessary to make a distinction here of Second Temple Judaism and Rabbinical Judaism, as well as Jewish ethnicity in general. It also doesn't help to heal the confusion that Jew is both an ethnic and a religious identity. People also conflate Jewish ethnicity with Jewish religion.Jews who converted to Christianity need not be ashamed of their ethnicity, but rather even be 'proud' in a sense that some of the lost old Israel joined the new Israel, the Church.
>>42852044I mean Second Temple Judaism and Rabbinical Judaism is basically what was left of the hebrew religion, which generally speaking, went through different phases throughout the history of the israelites. Sure, from the christian perspective this residue religion is no longer serving the purpose of preparing the way for the Messiah, nevertheless it is still superior to paganism because it keeps the Torah and jews who study it could become convinced that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, which has been historically the case with some converts. An interesting example is the 19th century Paul Drach, who was a very learned rabbi and talmudist scholar that later converted to Roman Catholicism and became librarian of the College of Propaganda in Rome under Pius IX, while at the same time still appreciating aspects of the true religion preserved by Rabbinic Judaism, especially in its kabbalistic tradition. Unfortunately his 'La cabale des Hébreux' has not yet been translated into the english language.
Since the whole endeavor of Christian Kabbalism originally started out as a (primarily) apologetic and even missionary effort, it is no wonder that already its earliest proponents were motivated by an intense desire to demonstrate how this central doctrine of the Christian revelation had already been “veiled” by Moses in the secret tradition that he had “received” ('kibel,' from which also the word 'kabbalah') on Mt. Sinai. As already Picus Mirandola–the father of all Christian Kabbalism–proclaimed in his 'Conclusiones Cabalisticae' ('secundum opinionem propriam,' V):>Every Hebrew Kabbalist, following the principles and sayings of the science of the Kabbala, is inevitably forced to concede, without addition, omission, or variation, precisely what the Catholic faith of Christians maintains concerning the Trinity and every divine Person, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.The Kabbalistic interpretation of the Trinity has thus a long tradition and ever since the time of Pico the most common way to demonstrate this dogma “secundum modum et principia cabalae” has been by associating the three supernal sefirot of the “Greater Face” to the three Most Blessed Persons of the Christian Trinity, so that still the Chevalier Drach (a 19th century Jewish scholar and convert to Catholicism) could write concerning the “Triple Crown” of 'Keter-Chockmah-Binah':>One would have to be blind not to see it, or quite obdurate not to want to admit it, that these three Glories are the most holy and indivisible Trinity of Persons in the unity of the Divine Essence. The Kabbalah proclaims this truth in the same words as the Catholic theology… [e.g. in the 'Zohar' where it says] ‘There are two with whom one unites, and they are three; and yet though they are three, they are only one’ ('La Cabale des Hébreux,' II.1, III.1).https://sensuscatholicus.substack.com/p/kabbalistic-mirrors-of-the-trinity
>>42852335>>42852391Yes, I agree that Judaism is preferrable to paganism, of course. Also on the points of the Christian Kabbalah and its purpose as missionary effort, I agree. Quite a few Jewish Kabbalists actually converted to Christianity because of their studies in the Kabbalah, such as Johan Kemper. I've heard of Paul Drach before and the quote you cited, but I'm not familiar with his work.I read the Sensus Catholicus article you linked once or twice already. I highly recommend you to read his article on the Pentagrammaton YHShVH as well.(https://open.substack.com/pub/sensuscatholicus/p/on-the-pentagrammaton)If you know German, I also recommend you to read through the academic work called "Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala", it goes over the history and ideas of the Christian Kabbalah movement. It should be on Anna's Archive.
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>>42852391Can you recommend some works or essays on Christian Kabbalah anon? Like the substack one you linked in your post?
I've felt myself growing apart from God for the last couple months, the past month I went to mount Athos (I'm EO) and felt even more spiritual dryness, now I'm back and it's like my heart is hardened or something. How can I pray to make this better? I'll talk about it to my confessor but I'm not gonna see him for a month or so
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>>42843492>>42845020Latin Mass server here. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, especially if you are worried about "fitting in" or understanding every single aspect of it. If I can give you a piece of advice, it would be not to overthink it. Just go there, listen to the chant, absorb the silence and be reverent toward our Lord. You may not get all the latin or time your genuflections perfectly, but none of this actually matters: you are there to venerate the Sacrifice. Just do it the best way you can.Imagine how this Mass was celebrated throughout the ages. The laity was often uninstructed, perhaps going there only as an ancient social norm. Nonetheless, the Latin Mass never failed to touch hearts and light some fire within. How many young men and women had their whole life defined by the simple image of the high elevation? How many artists found there the seed of their inspiration? How many saints, known and unknown to history?"Never before has such a spectacle, such a giant mirror of science, soul and history, been offered to the eyes and intelligence of man. The same symbolism extends to the music heard in the immense vessel, whose seven Gregorian tones represent the seven virtues and the seven ages of the world." - Proust, La mort des cathédralesYou see, I have been serving there for years and I don't fully get it. Neither does the priest. Neither did St. Thomas. To be honest, no one actually does. The more you try to understand it, the richer it becomes. It is just a matter of being present, knowing that you are taking part in what forged all the great saints of the Catholic tradition and, together with them, witnessing the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord.God bless
>>42854228all the saints say that location doesn't matter, not even if you are at church, it's an interior state
>>42841958this will get ignored because you're right
>>42853828Christian Gnosis: From Saint Paul to Meister Eckhart by Wolfgang Smith (a traditionalist scientist who also wrote multiple interesting books criticizing modern science, worth checking) contains some parts on christian kabbalah, as main sources you should probably check out Pico della Mirandola and Johann Reuchlin, these are basically the fathers of christian kabbalah.
>>42841487literally divvs ivlivs caesar on the tropaion painted with an eastern palette; the man god savior of the people that could not be killed and ascended into heaven
>>42857430I see. Thanks anon.
>>42841557Lord of Spiritsit follows the oldschool radio format, which i love, but might not be the kind of "podcast" you are expectingthey are also full-time radio hosts (have multiple "podcasts") which could be off-putting if you are expecting something more theologically savvythat being said, I don't think there is anything remotely similar in the English speaking spherejust don't do my mistake and start listening from the first (oldest) show onward, as you will get burned out... listen to the most recent one and if you feel the need for more, pick one of the older ones at randomsome shows are great, some suck... haven't been keeping track, I enjoy it for what it is, I consider them lovely neighbors even tho I never met them (one is from the Deep South, tho, which is among the places I love most on Earth...)anyway, sorry for ramblinginitially was just looking to thank OP for making this thread, but I also feel there is something stinky in the air, maybe geopolitical stuff brewing or some spiritual (terror?) attack and felt the need to try to helpthank you all, it would be a honor to consider all of you my neighbors too!
>>42853828not that anon, maybe try meditations on the tarotit has almost nothing on the kaballah, but it provides a fine framework to prepare you for it... not even religious, as most of the book runs along the lines of a philosophical education (a /lit/ tier one)...
>>42841557For Orthodox content in general I fully recommend Harmony.
>>42858101Thank you anon. I have actually started reading it again after I had stopped right in the middle of it in 2024, I read the letter to the High Priestess just today
>>42857389But how can I fix it then?
IQuestForTheBlueCrystalStaff
https://youtu.be/jr0JXSM_0Nk?si=GpOb7E8nyhiOkiEM
IQUESTFORTHETWOBLUECRYSTAL TABLETS
RememberWhatMenelikTookFromYou
The world is changed.I feel it in the water.I feel it in the earth.I smell it in the air.Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.It began with the forging of the Great Staff and Two Tablets given to the Aye ngles, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings who gifted them to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these staff and tablets was bound the strength and the will to provide law for each race. The Moses of black took the blue crystal staff and the two blue crystal tablets into the desert....and the gunslingers followed.....And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, they passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared another questie-er.It came to the creature Nobody, who took it deep into the tunnels of the fortune. And there it consumed them. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of the end war, and the Staff and Tablets of Power perceived its time had come. It found nobody but then something happened that the Tabbies did not intend. It was found by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a complete Nobody, THE Nobody, of /x/.For the time will soon come when the faithful of /x/ will shape the....fortunes.....of all.
>>42859172You ruined it
>>42858960pray, concentrate, repentin this order, if you have adhd try concerta
>>42852749I was following the discussion between you and the other anon and while I appreciate both of your insights regarding the conflation between modern jewry and the religion of the Old Testament, I also think that Paganism has a lot more to offer than your are giving it credit for.It's probably prudent to make a distinction between "high paganism" and "low paganism" wherein the former is philosophically developed and monistic.In a nutshell, I believe that Neoplatonism and Vedanta (specifically vishisht-advaita) are a lot closer to the truth than anything that identifies as "Jewish" after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.Concerning Kabbalah, I don't really understand the continued interest in it given the access English-speakers now have to Eastern Orthodox mysticism and things like Hermeticism, Neopythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, Vedanta, etc. Why would I put stock in the (recent) practices of a group of people who make denying Christ their first order of theological business?That said, it can still lead people towards the Truth, as any process or system of truth-seeking can, but I don't understand how a Christian could find it preferable to good-faith pagan systems. From an Orthodox point of view, "Jews" simply do not exist anymore in a religious sense.
>>42841557Ancient Faith Radio, specifically Father Thomas Hopko's "The Names of Jesus" series. It's very informative at touches on a huge number of Orthodox topics. I'm about half-way through now.
What if Adam and Eve ate the entire apple/fruit, including the seeds, and pooed the seeds out after expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and there might be another Tree of the knowledge of good and evil somewhere on this earth outside Eden grown from the seed?
"I believe that one must be prepared to die for one's ideas and face any resistance for them."-Daria Dugina
>the reality is not that feminine spirituality is missing from the Jewish and Christian tradition, but that it occupies a very special place there - a rather intimate, and esoteric one. I've thought about something like this recently. I used to be rather troubled by how obscure or even repressed the feminine aspects of God seem to be by mainstream Christians, and how defenses of Marian dogmas seem so convoluted when many of the attributes could be more easily asserted in reference to Sophia and the maternal Holy Spirit. But on the other hand, perhaps it's more appropriate for the masculine of God to want to preserve/protect the feminine aspects, like a man is supposed to protect and preserve woman. So Mary would sort of be like a distilled version of it in a sense, like not the feminine aspect of God herself but almost someone that stands in for it. Does anyone know what I mean? Has this line of thought ever been developed more in depth? It would make sense that God would only reveal that more tender, one might even say "sensual" aspect to his most devout followers?
>>42854228What you are experiencing is called healthy spiritual journey.It goes like this>you are faithful.>you are departing from your faith>your faith regrows>you are faithful.All i can recommend is to trust in God's plan, i actually experienced something something similar a while back, i was praying to God like my life depended on it, i can't even remember what i prayed for. The next day, as i was going to an appointment, an complete stranger just told me>God loves you.He was waiting in line, and he told me that to mt face as i was walking past by him, he wasn't talking to anyone else.This was during a depression phase and i was at my lowest, i had failed a class, my job applications were being ignored, and i was feeling very lonely because i have no friends anymore. I took it as a sign that God truly loved me, i don't think I'll ever doubt God again after that, it's just too big of a coincidence, i didn't pray often back then.Just trust in God's plan, he loves you.
Why is there so much hesitance or unwillingness to refer to the Holy Spirit or Sophia as a "goddess" aspect within the Trinity?
Would the geometric shape of the foundational, fundamental point particle be the geometric shape of creation the Creator uses?The makers brush signature. What makes you feel more in tune with the universe and The Creator?Random infinite chaotic quantum soup foam slop?Or a defined measured quant of a geometry? Which is the curtain being drawn back and the wizard revealed?And which is but a step closer to the being able to handle the responsibility of the power this truth brings?
>>42862355on the eastern orthodox side, the russians were always into western imported esotericism which includes the kabbalahpic related might be interesting but I haven't read it
>>42865236forgot pic related
Praying on magic mushrooms: yay or nay?
>>42862355>In a nutshell, I believe that Neoplatonism and Vedanta (specifically vishisht-advaita) are a lot closer to the truth than anything that identifies as "Jewish" after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.I am neither the anon from the discussion, but I would corroborate your observation... after The Resurrection, they seem to have grow so angry that they became straight up nihilists (although after the admonishments of the prophets, including the mirror served by Ecclesiastes, they were already atheists as theological doctrine)This was also fairly obvious when Pfefferkorn, a convert from Judaism, campaigned for the burning of all Jewish books -- and Reuchlin had to step in, to prove that those books still have a way out, if the individual chooses to take it.This was just after a few Maimonedes' rejection of Aristotle fed into mainstream Rabbinical Judaism... combine that with a lot of Jews consider the Medieval Era kind of a golden age (for them)... and a very ugly pattern seems to emergeSecond, I wouldn't recommend Advaita Vedanta or Neoplatonism either, but I agree with you that hating Christians or Christ (or anybody for that matter...) is not a cornerstone of their personality... I don't even need to say more.And lastly, I don't hate any "Jew" on the personal level, and I appreciate that they uphold a lot of traditions from the Old Testament (the same upheld by Jesus, even if some argue that they fulfilled the Old Covenant), their love of books, their knowledge of the Bible, and the way they intertwine ritual into daily life. This last aspect is something I feel the Western World (including Eastern Orthodox places) lost once the industrial era rolled in. Muslims and Jews managed to continue this thread... but among Christians such consistency seems to be possible is only among those ordained or who have taken the vows (monastics / lay brothers / etc.).
>>42865776Would you be able to tell if the magic mushroom is doing the praying or you? If you want to take them, it would probably be the best to pray beforehand. That's my opinion... also make sure you are in nature or at least have a big, peaceful area to move around... in the daytime... mushroom likes sensory stimulation and gets bored alone in the dark.
>>42865776Pray without ceasing
>>42862719This is one of the silliest thingz I have ever heard anon>>42865776Hallucinogenic drug use is not from God. Stop using drugs anon, it will get you nowhere, instead, the adversary will have you right in his hand. Drug use to get "experiences" is dollar store mysticism. "Sobrii estote er vigilate..." (1 Peter 5:8-9)
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>>42867535et, not er. Phone's autocorrect sucks
>>42861261I've been thinking of trying to get on ADHD meds actually because it's been messing up my life since childhood so yeahBut my prayer feels empty and hypocritical anyway>>42863911Thanks a lot for your reply anon, I felt despair this evening because I keep falling into sin and growing apart from God but as you said, I need to trust in Him and that everything will be fine.God bless you, friend
>>42863911Based post, more of your kind of attitude is very necessary
>>42867535>Latin for no reason + name fagging Pseud alert
>>42843492>Also, does anyone have that reading list that's often posted in these?I have no clue, but I was just putting order into my old tabs, and ran across this jewel about the Catholicism of Guenonhttps://traditioetrestauratio.blogspot.com/2012/04/william-h-kennedy-rene-guenon-and-roman.htmlIt might have been there for more than a year... so even if it's a coincidence it's a nice one.It's mostly about the social and political context, though, so those other anons (can tell if they are one or two) are more relevant from a practical standpoint...You are lucky to hae TLM availabpe... ask maybe they also recite the morning Hours? Thats a nice experience for getting into the Psalms...Peace
>>42867752>doesn't know Latin
>>42867535You're entirely right, but why not quote the original greek?
>>42868170Personally I have a love for the Vulgate, so I wanted to cite it. But here's the Greek from the Berean Interlinear Bible:1 Peter 5:8-9a8Νήψατε (Be sober-minded), γρηγορήσατε (be alert). ὁ (The) ἀντίδικος (adversary) ὑμῶν (of you) διάβολος (the devil) ὡς (as) λέων (a lion) ὠρυόμενος (roaring) περιπατεῖ (prowls around) ζητῶν (seeking) τινα (whom) καταπιεῖν (to swallow up)· 9ᾧ (whom) ἀντίστητε (you should resist) στερεοὶ (firm) τῇ (in the) πίστει (faith)[...].It's the chapter that is cited in the Canonical Hour of Compline, traditionally said in Latin. It calls us to stay vigilant before we go to sleep when we pray that Hour.I will excuse myself for my smugness though, I could really use some more practice in humility.
>>42868227Nice, thanks. I should really get to learning greek.
>>42868237I study theology at university as of now, so I got around to learn basic knowledge of Hebrew and koine Greek. Highly recommend learning those languages. I would add Latin to the mix as well as it's so important for understanding the European Occidental spirit (assuming you are from a Western country here) but also the history of the Christian Church and her theology.
>>42868237Not that anon, but we should learn Greek, Latin, and Biblical Hebrew in parallel... Not only because it could enrich the meaning we derive, but also enrich us with the human experience of those noble languages.And also because a dude on youtube, who has the hobby/job to learn languages, said it's easier to learn 2 or 3 at once...
>>42868270>>42868271I'm soon going to be starting a theology degree as well, though at an Orthodox institution, so the language focus will be greek and hebrew exclusively.I'm especially eager to read Genesis in hebrew considering how all exegetes seem to agree that a huge amount of meaning is lost in translation (by necessity) even in the Septuagint.
>>42846243>GnosisThe original sin was about eating from the fruit and tasting duality. But if you eat again from the tree of knowledge then the fruit of Good AND Evil you'll go back to the state before heaven and earth were born.
Wondering if someone could comment on this. I've been praying the Rosary, fifteen decades each day for a wife, and rather than a woman I've received a number of signal graces related to the institution of marriage. Here are the notions I've received.>The pleasure of coitus is a foretaste of the pleasure God has creating man>Coitus is how God may will man to participate in God's creation>The pain and joys a man may feel in regard to his children are reflections of the pains and joys God feels watching His creation>Man may create a man according to man's will, but if God wills a man to be made unto one keeping His will then He will make the man for the man subservient to His will.I've also wondered whether it's by the will of man or the will of God that one is born before baptism. A man can be born by the will of man, but if a man prays for a wife and offspring like I, does he place that authorship of life under the will of God? For me, it feels silly to pray for a marriage and its pleasures because if God wants someone to be born, specifically under my parenthood, then He'd do it. I am embarrassed to say that it took me 6 years to realize this. I've been Christian 6 years, a Catholic for 3 or 4, and it took me until I was 23 to figure out that God should make a person out of me when He desires. I still don't know how to feel about that. Sometimes, I'm tempted, feeling like the years for which the pleasures of the flesh are passing by when at any time they could be satisfied with a woman. But I fear hell and I fear God, and I sometimes wonder how long it'll take for a person to find others like myself. Even among Catholic circles I feel out of place because I fear going to Hell while others do not. If anyone is older than I, does it get better over time?
>>42868586For what it's worth Catholics usually ask for the intercession of St. Anthony of Padua (not to be confused with St. Anthony of the Desert a.k.a. Great Anthon) to find a marriage partner... although I usually ask for his intercession for the Lord to neutralize poisons the pagans may put before me.According to the Old Testament, the ultimate interdiction is to have sex with another's wife, otherwise it's between you and the Lord.Be aware that due to all the temptations easily available to ALL women, their mental and physiological makeup has chaned over the past decades, so it's probably not worth limiting your relationship with the Lord unless He, not to sound flippant, sends you one.You are correct in your concerns, in my opinion, but of course you should ask a priest for consultation...Nice picture, peace be upon you!
I've experienced a large amount of demonic oppression for 8 years. Also known as scizophrenia.At first I didn't understand and was very favourable to demons. A ghost demon sucked my cock saying "she liked a loopy boy" and in sleep paralysis I almost got raped by a demon with claws because I offered my ass to it, but it was going "Yes yes yes" while I was going "No noooo no" and thankfully I woke up.In another episode I was catatonic which was very traumatic, seeing literal bugs on the glasses I was drinking water from, all the while i only watched christian broadcasts.He called himself beezlebub from the bible lord of demons. and it wasnt fun. im on meds for life btw.but ive had this female demon since childhood who wasnt as bad since she didnt torture me but i was always a weirdo and spaced out due to it. anyway she decided to leave and i got the prince of demons himself at one point turning me catatonic.i don't think im demonically possessed at the moment but the damage has been done and i think about it everyday and worry about it happening again.
>>42863911I experienced this as well recently. Had a long talk with a random lady who told me that God loves me right before i was leaving a store, made me break down in tears witnessing such a direct message from the Lord after having such a crummy day. God bless you all <3
The powers that be are probably turning up the propaganda (Ellul style) manipulation to the max... Ukraine was the experiment, as "Eastern Orthodox" politicians, clergy, police, and judiciary are India tier corrupt anyway... Poland was the refinement, government change in an actually Christian country... and the final test was Hungary that was Poland, but with an European cultural past instead of a Slav one (at least until communism).Who knows what will happen now, "when the weather cools" to quote that modern Nostrafamus, in post-white countries with any economic power left (like Germany, France, Spain, UK).
>>42869586Dont forget Covid (2020) after Zelinsky (2019) and before Poland (2023)... they unveiled ChatGPT in 2022 but probably that the capability, mainly using online book piracy (which, now that they got what they built it for, is shutting down probably forever). Remember they wanted to shut down archive.org already in 2021...
>>42868802>but ive had this female demon since childhood who wasnt as bad since she didnt torture me but i was always a weirdo and spaced out due to it. anyway she decided to leaveShe wasn't *as* bad... but was still bad?
>>42841487If you want to talk about books go to >>>/lit/ lol. You'll get nothing here since nobaldi here reads DESU
>>42846084>You guys get anything meaningful from the gnostic literature?well, I "got something" by you putting this question: searching for connections between troubadurs or minnesingers and psalms I found nothing... but there is a very obvious connection between Dante and the psalms, and searching for that yielded me this website:>https://dantecomedy.com/which is a new prose translation made by a French Brother to celebrate Dante's 700th anniversary (2021), and it's complete as of this year; it's probably the most readable English translation I have ever set my eyes upon, and it's free (the site also has links to all the other public domain or free translations on the internet)but, other than that, and contribute to the discussion: it's quite interesting how gnosticism yielded so many diverging paths, from theological heresy (Albigensians and Bogomils) to romantic/courtly love... and even within this last category there is everything from Marian devotion, to inspiration gained from the idea of the feminine (ideal or abstracted), to romantic love (including critics saying "it's a bad thing" and "that's a good thing"), to currents fixated on orgies and drugs (idem)... I also wanted to post a lewd (non-nude) sophia coming to rape you with gnosis, but alas, they removed the ability to hide images on /x/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6r1i7IM44
>>42879771https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1787836654929540.mp4
>>42841487Hey OP why don't you have Bl. Erigena's Periphyseon in your reading list? It is a pretty good book that even Ratzinger had very high thoughts on it.
>>42881232Forgot pic :p
>>42842247I do the Western Monastic "equivalent" to the Jesus prayer taken from Psalm 70 (69 in the Vulgate)Deus, in adiutorium meum intendeDomine, ad adiuvandum me festina
>>42882552>Tradition says that Benedict of Nursia introduced this custom into the monastic Office, heavily influenced by the writings of Saint John Cassian.very based, but how does it connect? isn't the Jesus prayer about mercy (i.e. your repentance)?
>>42859116What is this?
>>42841511Here, hold my finger while I dump a watering can on the devil.
>>42882751Well it has a common origin to the Jesus prayer and it's repeated, Cassian actually states that you can use various bible verses, this one is just used as an example and so more famous
>>42886311>you can use various bible versesbut doesn't it matter which ones? sounds kind of nominalistic
>>42846084Gnosticism helps with realizing certain Christian traditions that have been mostly forgotten, for example the belief in archons comes from the New Testament, though for us the archons are the demons of the air who are the fallen angels who rebelled against GodI recommend you read Jean Danielou's trilogy Jewish Christianity, Greek Christianity and Latin Christianity >>42846774Kabbalah had by then reached a certain level of prestige as the origin of philosophy, after the release of Kabbalah Denundata Kabbalah was then disregarded as Jewish Philosophy as it seemed foreign to Christianity by the majority >>42852391>>42852749>>42862355The Jewish Kabbalah was never talen wholesale by Christians, it was seen as part one of the sources for the most ancient wisdom available, later it became the source as it was believed to be from Moses, yet the way Christians received it is different from the Jews as we read it through a Platonic and a Christ focused lense, Luriac Kabbalah was never adopted besides the concept of Tzitzum which was connected to the Khora of the Timaeus, and it has been part of Christianity for centuries so we can't disregard itFor example for Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, God who is Ein Soph, reveals himself as the Ten Sephirot in Christ, the first three are he who was, is and will be, titles Jesus uses in Revelations, and the seven below are the seven spirits from Revelations who are also the ones Jakob Böhme wrote about
>>42863889"Feminity" in Christianity can be found in Sophia, the Church, the virtues all being women, Mary, etc...>>42864330That would imply separation between a male God and a female goddessIn reality the Trinity is androgynous, meaning neither male nor female>>42881232It's in the actual reading list which an image that OP didn't post
>>42886401The whole Bible is holy so it depends on what speaks to you
>>42886413Post?
>>42886496Here you go
>>42886504Ah this one is a classic but Theosophy is, literally, gay as hell, an error which Borella (follower of Guenon, whom himself wrote much against the movement) pointed out the errors of. (later) Tomberg and all the rest of the Sophiologist are also not inclined in the school of thought. Perennialism should be the focused.
>>42886515That's not Helena Blavatsky Theosophical Society Theosophy It's Early Modern Christian theosophy which predates it by centuries and is unrelated
>>42886526The linguistics issue still is a problem and should've been considered by any metaphysician. In practice no one uses the word "Theosophy" outside of that esoteric-solipsist school.>Wittgenstein-staring-at-your-soul.jpeg
>>42886515This isn't using "theosophy" in the Blavatsky sense, and perennialism and Christian esotericism ultimately have exclusive core premises.
>>42886537Christians interested in theology, especially ones in an academic context, often use the term "theosophy" referring to Jakob Bohme and approaches to faith adjacent to his.
>>42886545I see now considering I'm Catholic and never give thought to Lutharens, or specifically none Apostolic Christians, for various reasons.
>>42886566Louise Claude de Saint-Martin Karl von EckhartshausenFranz von Baader
>>42886417mea culpa, I didn't take the quote marks around "equivalent" seriously enough
>>42886538>This isn't using "theosophy" in the Blavatsky sensesure it does, that anon was attentive enough to spell it "Theosophy" not "theosophy"
>>42886515where does Borella talk about Tomberg?
>>42886538By "exclusive", you're referring to "exclusive" and "inclusive" dichotomy right? If so, exclusivism is better. A lot of the Catholics directly influenced by the Freemason ('secret') movement really are trash.
