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What would be the obstacle to describing it as a hermetic work? The fact that Hermes T. has a somewhat more decorative role and the lack of the more metaphysical principles of the theoretic literature? My instinct is that a text is presumptively hermetic if it thinks HT is a huge authoritative deal: regardless of whether the text is operational or theoretical.

The Picatrix is definitely an Hermetic work . The whole praxis of astrological magic in Picatrix depends entirely upon the chief Hermetic axiom " As Above , so Below " .

hahaaa, nice: “THE ULTIMATE FORMULA”

NICE!

Wrong interpretation of coincidence

😂 the timing

the secrets of the magickal grimoires by aaron leitch might be helpful - I'm yet to read it but from an interview I heard with the author, it's like a behind the scenes book for ancient grimoires

It's indeed frustrating. I've had lots of stuff on Picatrix get age restricted and demonetized over the years just for reading quotes. They don't tell you what triggers it in particular either, so you just have to guess at what offends the bots.

heck ya cholate

Thanks John, I will take the admonition to heart. I think the problem is that as you grow in size or reach, you tend to grow in responsibility and caution in due proportion, which tends to make us (or at least me) a bit less brazen in a public forum where people are not so forgiving.

@@TheModernHermeticist I understand. But keep your mojo workin :)

Picatrix: “For the true sage, the end justifies the means.” i dont believe in the “everybody is a salesman” meme that is being sold.

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Glad it was helpful!

No way! Chris reached out to me back in the days when I was working on Picatrix and I had an eye toward the materia medica. Funny you should find me in there, it's a big book if I recall.

Thank you kindly.

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why 2 of the 3 how do you count wisdoms?

@@arturhashmi6281 not sure if you will agree or not but I always considered the three ancient wisdoms as Astrology from the Zoroasters, although they would say it was passed down to them from antiquity, Alchemy from the ancient Egyptians, and some would argue that they received their wisdom from the Atlanteans. Lastly “religion” or What some would call spirituality or “shamanism” or both depending on their culture.

Thanks for watching

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It's possible, but it's hard to say because in the Achaemenid Persians ruled over Egypt from 525 to 404 BC and there was a lot of cultural exchange during that time (including between Egyptians and Chaldeans). Then we get the whole Alexander in Persia thing and the Hellenistic empires uniting Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia for a time where you'd get a lot of cultural exchange. But again, all this is relatively quite early, and I suspect this is tied in with much later conceptions from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica's Alexander lore. It's definitely a question I could/should have looked into in more detail, but I didn't want to prolong the video too much.

Melancholia is about the overbearing influence of Saturn, and the attempt to temper that influence with magic (the magic square over the angel's shoulder is a Jupiter talisman used to ward off Saturn's unfortunate/malefic influences).

Comet BBQ... Melancholia the movie... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK-Ketqn3c68pqs.html Also at the beginning of the movie "The Omega Man", Charlton Heston enters a car dealership. The first poster we see on the wall is a "Mercury Power" poster. The Messenger. MessengerRNA mRNA. There is a message in the dealership. He walks past a "Time" poster next, then they show the big "COMET $2217" poster, 2=B 2=B Q=17, BBQ.There is also the calendar on March for the WHO March 11, 113/311 pandemic declared date. Not long after in the movie he has the helicopter crash flashback. The pilot gets infected and crashes. Charlton survives and crawls from the wreckage reaching for the "Vaccine".

I should have mentioned I have a whole 4h reading of the Sirr al Asrar from a few years back.

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I'm not sure anyone really escapes bad things happening to them.

@@TheModernHermeticist indeed

Blame the bot police that combs through every posted sentence to find offense across 10 different categories before age restricting and throttling a project that took two weeks to make. Trust me, I hate it the most.

@TheModernHermeticist the bot police get most of my hate in the burgeoning technocracy. Gone are the needs for compassion for convenience of automation is here to abate our inadequacies

Thanks again for the support Mandy! 🙏 tell me more about this Osiris work, I'm unfamiliar with it.

@@TheModernHermeticist its this nice big brick of a book~ titled, " OSIRIS, the egyptian religion of resurrection " has tons of outlined drawinings of tomb paintings and tons of gorgoeus hieroglyphs- and it traces the perception of Osiris for all of history: lots of comparitive religion references as well- the writing is juicy! hey- ppl can say that budge is outdated...but to me, he is so enjoyable to read... / actually makes me want to read his autobiography too.... and since ppl were having a huge moral upset over Budge, it really got my mind excited and engaged, like...well, i guess pillaging is necessary! etc. speaking of museums and the study of antiquity.... tomb raiding / politcal correctness. 🥸 omg. yeah i think this one would appeal to the picatrix crowd...whew. "The moon was the great 'runner' khens of the night-sky, and was in early times associated with Thoth; in later times it was regarded as the abode of Osiris...." oh yeah, he asks the modern people what their beliefs are and tries to relate any traces...or find any traces from the past into the beliefs now...and he was criticized for that. but unless i had read this book, of the God changing over time, i would have said no to your hermes question> " A few days later Lucius bade the priest farewell and departed from Cenchieae for Rome, and when he arrived there he became a continual worshipper in the temple of Queen Isis who, from the situation of her temple, was called, 'Goddess in the field of Mars." When Lucius had spent a year in worshipping Isis in this way, the goddess began to warn him in his slumbers to prepare for a new initiation. Pondering what the warnings of the goddess might mean Lucius consulted some of the initiate, and at length he learned that he had still to be initiated into the Mysteries of the mighty god, "unconquered Osiris, supreme father of the gods" for though the faith of Isis was identical with that of Osiris, the methods of initiation of the two faiths were different." p. 303