Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem 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/previous: >>42942490
an interesting take on the way of the crosshttps://jhna.org/articles/crusading-in-a-lisbon-convent-the-making-and-meaning-of-the-passion-of-christ-in-jerusalem/full size painting (8 megabytes):https://jhna.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fig-01-Passion-Of-Christ.jpg
To the anon asking for guardian angel tips why not try some Echonian rituals and see where that gets you, might get something
According to the old (pre-Vatican II) calendar, today used to be the feast day of St. Therese of Lisieux>For some time I had been accustomed to offer myself as a plaything to the Child Jesus. I told Him not to treat me like an expensive toy which children look at but dare not touch. I was a cheap little ball which He could fling on the ground or kick or pierce or leave neglected in a corner or even press to His Heart if it gave Him pleasure. To put it in a nutshell, I longed to amuse the little Jesus and offer myself to His childish whims.>He answered my prayer. In Rome, Jesus pierced His little toy. He wanted to see what was inside and then, having found out, He let His little ball drop and went to sleep. What did He dream about and what happened to the abandoned ball? Jesus dreamt that He was still playing with it, picking it up and dropping it, letting it roll away from Him, but in the end pressing it close to His Heart and never letting it slip again from His little Hand. You can understand, Mother, how sad the little ball was to see itself lying on the ground, but she went on hoping against all hope.Excerpt from The Story of a Soul, Chpt 6, p90
Nice, we're back.>Catholics be like: did you see the new patch notes?I jest, what has everyone been reading?
https://pulpfictionrenaissance.com/2023/07/07/what-dion-fortune-mom-knew-the-biblical-king-arthur-connection/
>>43037843can't really say it's esoteric, tho policing and detention (as a branch of local government, and not central government) seems to be an uniquely christian institutionRome also had detention, but from what I gather either till they figured out what to do with the convict... or for life
>>43037843Some Yeats. Got me thinking.>Hammer noted that between 1880 and 1884 Sinnett received from the mahatmas circa one hundred twenty letters with explanation of "occult cosmology". From this material, he attempted to formulate in his new book "the basis of a revised theosophy."Pre-internet "hello saar" lol>The core connection between the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats) and the English theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett (A.P. Sinnett) lies in the profound influence Sinnett’s occult writings had on Yeats’s spiritual evolution and poetry.There goes Celtic Protestantism...>Ireland had been officially Protestant only since the Reformation. Yeats’ nostalgic vision leap-frogged the Catholic centuries back to a time before St. Patrick. But there was no stopping the papists. And no evocation of a roseate Celtic past or any number of seances could lift Yeats’ gloom about the eclipse of his world of privilege and elite “wisdom.” Not even the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature could help that.Is "Celtic nostalgia" just Hindooism in disguise?>We can say a little more. Yeats was deeply invested in ritual. His instincts in this respect are more Catholic than Protestant: life lived where “all’s accustomed, ceremonious” is exactly what he wishes for his daughter.Of course the devil is not so black as he is painted...>An early champion of Indian-inspired thought in the West was Arthur Schopenhauer who in the 1850s advocated ethics based on an "Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual self-conquest", as opposed to the ignorant drive toward earthly utopianism of the superficially this-worldly "Jewish" spirit.Quite a coincidence, sharing the same time period with Blavatsky's society and Emerson & Thoreau's translations of Hindoo texts.So what can be considered the "most advanced" Western Esoteric work before it got jeet'ed in 1950? Excluding Jewish, Catholic, and Orthodox works -- they arguably continued .
>>43037553>Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem EditionIs Margaret Barker still alive? What do y'all think of her theories, especially that king Josiah didn't actually clean the temple to its former original form as God intended, but he corrupted it himself through his reforms?
>>43038696She's right and still alive.
>>43038624bro why are you fighting your mask when you ARE the light, the star of david already did the math on this like centuries ago, two triangles don't oppose they complete, you're not cave-watching the fire you're the thing that makes the fire visible, the conflict you think you're in is just you forgetting you brought the candle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83x2B133wls
>>43038748Well said, I hope Yeats also reads it lol
https://www.rtmullins.com/podcast/episode/d9afe2e3/ep-204-god-emotion-and-classical-theists-missing-the-point
>>43038748You are a predicated light but not the source of light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE5Gu47spug
>>43039048The wheel doesn't spin for luck, what matters is what's riding it.
>>43039571https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfPcf9vPCxY
>>43039974the ark doesnt ask the ones it chose, they were built for it before they knew what they were being built for.
>>43040061>A bivouac is an organic structure formed by migratory driver ant and army ant colonies, such as the species Eciton burchellii. A nest is constructed out of the living ant workers' own bodies to protect the queen and larvae, and is later deconstructed as the ants move on.
>>43038624>So what can be considered the "most advanced" Western Esoteric work before it got jeet'ed in 1950?you mean 1850 I assume?
>>43041285Yes, said the man to himselfStingless bees build some Lovecraftian (or at least, stereotypically horror-movie) tier nests/hives... they don't die off in the winter like European or Asian honeybees, and they don't like hexagons either...
>>43038624>So what can be considered the "most advanced" Western Esoteric work before it got jeet'ed in 1950?The art of memory, it was used to memorize the gospel as well as to meditate on it by visualizing the compressed memory image corresponding to that specific book. It was also used for summoning. It later got incorporated into hermeticism and alchemy, mostly by mirroring the structure of the cosmos like what Giordano Bruno was doing (his art was probably also a form of "automated" thinking). Masonic lodges look weird because you're supposed to use them as memory palaces.
>>43041168The humanoid nurtures and protects its fragile little self, afraid of becoming WHOLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWu45du47Yo
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>>43041551The circle is the only shape that points back to itself.
>>43041609>It was a vast boat that saved two of each animal and a handful of humans from a catastrophic flood.>But forget all those images of a long vessel with a pointy bow; the original Noah's Ark, new research suggests, was round.>A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia – modern Iraq – reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle – as well as the key instruction that animals should enter "two by two."sounds like a good shape, ufo's also use it
>Henry Sulley (1845–1940) was an English architect and writer on the temples of Jerusalem.
>>43041687Creation doesn't have a circular shape. The whole fundamental meaning of the thing itself is removing those frameworks. Infinite recursion with no exit, the coracle surviving the flood so the self can spend eternity explaining the shape of the coracle. Everything built on top of that in esoteric tradition is people mistaking the boat for the river.
>>43041820reminds me of Chesterton saying that Eastern cultures fried their brains with that kind of thinking
>>43041850You drew a circle around the circle to disprove the circle, circled back to a circular boat as evidence, built a circular argument on top of that circle, and the circle closed exactly where it always does.
>>43041860cool story bro
>private property or monism, that is the question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJFhQhmdT2g
Anyone here plugged into the Los Angeles Underground? I'm looking for something very specific but I don't know where to go to find it.
Excellent new video on the Jewish-Freemasonic assault on Christianity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytV6aofmhzw
Francis Schaeffer seems interesting. I get the impression that he may be misrepresenting Hegel, but other than that, there is something compelling about his "line of despair" view of ancient Christian history, which gives birth to the idea of a non-Neoplatonic Christianity.
>>43041551>Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,>Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell>And the profit and loss.> A current under sea>Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell>He passed the stages of his age and youth>Entering the whirlpool.> Gentile or Jew>O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,>Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
Be weary of the names of the lands in which you think you live, and be weary of all the maps. For both have been confused, not just our language. Be weary of even the shape of your land, for you know not even from a bird's eye view the extent of its reach or its surroundings, and all who claim to know are untrustworthy. Verily I say unto you, do not fret. Do not worry about these things, but take heed to be weary and knowledged. Knowledge is not memorization. Understand first that the Bible happened in the land now called America. You will learn in time. Be weary of all who claim to acknowledge such a truth and what their aims are. If they are not in My words, they are not true. You know who I am. You know.
>>43042208>retard becomes solipsist and calls himself a monist while uplifting his ego and refusing to venerate the true God which all is within and of and inseparable fromWow. Much Jeenyus.
i found this book a decent underpainting for Voegelin's objections on the political "use" of monism; it's a very succinct run-down on studies concerning the sociology of power, from the days of Machiavelli till Samuel T Francis' "Enemies of Leviathan" etc.
>>43045754Parvini is a cunning man with a serpent's tongue. Don't trust him, though Elite Theory is correct in exact.
>>43045866yeah, i looked a bit into his other work, but this one seems more of a textbook than an analysis
>>43046034Be weary of any man who excuses any kind of killing for any reason, including claimed veneration of stability or divinity.
>>43046042anon
>>43046042are you the same nigga that thinks he's Jesus?>>43045871>>43045960
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>[...]>The days have been slipping away, and all the pomps of the kingdom of earth. There are not now kings nor emperors nor gold-giving lords like those that used once to be, when they performed the greatest deeds of glory among themselves and lived in most noble renown. This whole company has perished; the pleasures have slipped away. The weaker remain and occupy the world; in toil they use it. Splendour had been humbled. Earth’s nobility ages and grows sear just as each man now does throughout the middle-earth. Old age advances upon him, his face grows pallid, grey-haired he mourns: he is conscious that his former friends, the sons of princes, have been committed to the earth. Then, when life fails him, his body will be unable to taste sweetness or feel pain or stir a hand or think with the mind. [...]>Great is the awesomeness of the ordaining Lord, for this world will pass away; but he made stable the solid foundations, the earth’s surfaces and the sky above. Foolish is he who does not fear his Lord: death will come upon him unpremeditated. Blessed is he who lives in humility: to him will come grace from the heavens. The ordaining Lord will make stable his heart, because he trusts in his might. A man must steer a wilful heart and keep it fixed upon stable points; and, worthy of men’s trust and pure in his ways, each man must conduct himself with moderation through happiness and through adversity, in joy and in affliction, even if the Lord wills to prove him, permeated by fire, or assay, smelted in the flame, the friend he has made. Fate is stronger, the ordaining Lord mightier, than the mind of any man.>Let us consider where we may have a home, and then think how we may get there and how we may henceforth also strive so that we might arrive in everlasting blessedness, where there is life originating in the Lord’s love, and hope, in the heavens.fragment of "The Seafarer," translated by S. A. J. Bradley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLNsWTj4IW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniG7vhj-x0
>>43037553Hello anons. I'd like to request a Prayer. Please Pray for me and my health and wellbeing.I haven't been feeling really good these last few days, and I know that nothing is going to happen to me and that its just my anxiety more than likely but I'm still anxious and afraid, and I need strength from God and Jesus Christ. Thank you, and have a goodnight, Amen.
>>43048111>Philippa’s mother believed in raw foods and had the stove removed from her Harlem kitchen. Neither vegetables nor meat were cooked but were eaten raw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjUJeYu2LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBI5lPYNdzs
>>43041285>1850>The sequence played by J.F. Sebastian and Dr. Eldon Tyrell mirrors the legendary Immortal Game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in London on June 21, 1851.I guess that's when the replicants won huh.>No, there is no chess game in Philip K. Dick's original 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Man I love movies.
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Has anyone here read Arthur Versluis’s Platonic Mysticism?
>>43050243Me
>>43050419Right on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxh-Yq82JfQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJIJhQI_AbM
Is there anything about 1975? I am reviewing some TV news footage and am surprised to see people "fruiting": 30 year olds in 1990, 50 year olds in 2000, 70 year olds in 2010
Some variations on the Jesus prayer:>Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.Mt. Athos monastics seem to teach it this way.>Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.This one I only see in English-language texts, including English texts published by Russian and Greek Christians.>Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.This shortest form is found in the 1884 Russian classic "The Way of a Pilgrim."My preference after practicing them all is the Mt. Athos format. "Son of God" feels implicit to me, as are many other names and titles of Jesus. Any insights?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S583TSFQOTA
>>43041651>>43041657>>43041660What is the book about anon? Can you give a qrd?
>>43052539
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuueJCUpkc
>>43050419Any insight? Do you recommend it to others?
>>43052904Ah, so it's a sedevacantist book. Thanks>>43052829>>43052823Yes to both questions.
>>43055195Pope John Paul II was a wonderful man, with timeless wisdom he was not ashamed to share, but maybe shouldn't have been the pope.Benedict XVI was the only "pope" in the pre-Vatican II tradition since that conclave. I hope the current pope becomes more like him...
>>43038696Thank you, never heard of her.>According to her, Sola Scriptura – the doctrine that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice – has hindered rather than helped the understanding of Christianity.When I read this on her wikipedia I came to realize that "Sola Scriptura" is a romantic notion (maybe even the herald of romanticism and everything it implied, including pagan revivals and Golden Dawn style magic), that is very comfy, and I'm grateful for Protestants to seek salvation in nurturing it.
>>43054875Most of his books are good and recommended Though his Platonic Mysticism book is meant to be more general and doesn't have a focus on Christianity, even if he speaks of Dionysius the Areopagite as one of the most important "Platonic Mystics"
>>43057112Yeah, seems like that, but he's still young (in Pope terms) so I still have hopes. I never had hopes that Francis would turn non-commie.
>>43057818this sounds insane even for a conspiracy theory
https://www.transnotitia.com/subverting-the-church/
>>43037843Started reading the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as I've seen anons discuss it two threads ago.>>43057984>>43059446>>43045117>>43042320>>43042786>>43042221Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
Opinions on the Book of Enoch?
>>43061161which one?I read one where Enoch is alone against all injustice and the Lord plucks him up and shows him heavenly things... after about 30 pages I admit I got bored, but the beginning was incredible (sort of a reverse-Jonas)reading wikipedia now, it looks like it was probably 2 Enoch, and not 1 Enoch... can't really tell, it's too confusing
reverse-Job, pardon me
>>43051981I prefer the long version (which is, if I'm not mistaken, originally from the 6th C. Egyptian anchorite Abba Philimon). I feel like it contains not just the petition for God's mercy but also a correct orientation of both petitioner and the petitionee, i.e. Christ.I also simply use the longer form for utterly mundane reasons; the most common translation of the prayer into my native language happens to be of the long form.
>>43055479The Popes since Vatican II have been very much affected by the weakness of the post-modern age, unfortunately.Benedict XVI is also my favourite recent Pope.>>43057146Francis was probably the worst Pope we had in 100 years. Amoris laetitia, Fiducia supplicans, Traditionis custodes...
>>43042116NO I AM NOT GOD AND I WILL NEVER BE GOD! DON'T YOU GET IT?1. THE FATHER GOD2. THE SON OF GOD3. THE HOLY SPIRIT4. ME5. NEIGHBORIn confession, disciple of Jesus Christ, I have sinned. Save me, LORD, from the allure of Baalim's tabloids and Ashtoreth's fertility apart from wedlock.Thank you very much!
>>43047893Thank you God for this opportunity to pray over Anon. God, strengthen anon that when he wakes up in the morning, that he has strong bones and lubricated joints in Thy name power made perfect in weakness so that he can overcome the wicked one and have the victory for today and the rest of the days. Amen and amen.
Also fuck you for putting a dog down for simply barking. May Charlie Kirk's soul be received by Yahweh and that he get promoted big time.Fuck you in the name of Jesus Christ.
>>43047893Hey anon, I included a prayer in your intention in my everyday novena. May Holy Spirit heal your mind and body, amen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDdQAX-xJQ
