The Origin of the Magic Art (Pliny the Elder

The Origin of the Magic Art (Pliny the Elder - c. 77 AD)

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The Origin of the Magic Art
Adapted from Pliny the Elder's The Natural History
Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley. London (1855)
Read and animated by Dan Attrell
You can read the full text here: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...
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@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Please like, share, and leave a comment to be a sweet-smelling incense unto the algogods. Make Pliny roll in his grave.

@guidedmeditation2396 Жыл бұрын

True magic is actually no less than universal knowledge that is older than anything recorded in human history. Billions or trillions of years old. Teaching methods and periods of documented activities come and go but the true origin is not even on this planet. Still its interesting to learn about periods in more recent history.

@Bildgesmythe Жыл бұрын

Thanks again for your perfect voice and great art illustrate the video.

@Shadoweknows76 Жыл бұрын

Here's your sweet comment. I am a child of God. I am nephilum Daughter of god. Nothing about my all seeing knowledge has been fun a memory from 4m old isn't cool. Accidentally hurting people physically and training your babies to not Accidentally kill during play. We are many and it's about to get erased and fixed. Depending on the person on judgment day. You should be seeking y Our creator instead of teaching this 😢

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

If you're wondering about "Hermippus, who wrote about the whole craft very carefully, compiled abstracts for and commentaries on the two million verses written by Zoroaster", see FGH 1026 F57 (courtesy of Daniel Ogden).

@retribution999 Жыл бұрын

What is that?

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Fragmente der griechischen Historiker

@dangerouswitch1066 10 ай бұрын

Yes, thanks

@TheWisestOwl Жыл бұрын

Nice video, great editing as always.

@markdpricemusic1574 Жыл бұрын

Once again, many thanks for all your work. Very much appreciated!

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Mark.

@sonofsothis58 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for reading this classic, I enjoyed it.

@GlynWilliams-wz7ol Жыл бұрын

Just would like to say. Thanks for your amazing work. Love and peace. Glyn

@Monica23881 Жыл бұрын

We could use some legislation banning human sacrifice in these times as well.

@Cholatemilk1 Жыл бұрын

I agree with the sentiment but I believe most countries murder laws include this

@appidydafoo Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite books. Great reading. Thank you.

@sieben.5141 8 ай бұрын

“That these doctrines should have been received by any portion of mankind, and transmitted to us by the aid of memory, is to me surprising beyond anything I can conceive”. Beyond anything you were able to conceive, indeed.

@Marjorie-yt7pb Жыл бұрын

Making my day . Wonderful artworks and reading 😇

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

🙏

@mrwondering2594 Жыл бұрын

Your the best thanks for all you do I wonder if perhaps you can do a few videos of shamanism/ancestral magic surely all the arts stemmed from it

@ChrisLively Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Chattanooga, TN. I love the topic and the art presented here is such that I could look at it forever. There's more going on than just art I feel. Thanks for your time and for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

@graceanderson6532 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your work man! Much appreciated 💙

@david-jr5fn Жыл бұрын

The Zoroastrians homeland however was Airyana Vaeja, a place in the far north and so this is the ultimate origin of magic. The Celts themselves say that the knowledge of the druids comes from the Northern islands of the Earth

@arturhashmi6281 Жыл бұрын

It is mythical place, Celts believed that they came from the west, for example. Zoroaster did not live 6 thousands years before Plato, Gilgamesh was not king 20 thousands years ago, You should not take myths literally

@FramingEden Жыл бұрын

Without a pure cause whether it be for concealing or revealing, yes, without a pure cause everything will be for nought, it would be better to not try than try with half measure, but how can one try with full measure? Is it for passion? Is it for feeling? Is it for pride? Greed? To satiate the unending thirst for knowledge... no... see a full measure of effort can be offered by those of a broken heart and contrite spirit, the praises can be heard at the moment of victory, the sound of a child's needs through tears and howling, yes, we all posess 'magic' some men have Conquered the world, namely Jesus, Jesus Teaches Us The Greatest Teaching, Lose Your Life And Gain It, Covet Your Lige And Lose It... it is the hand which presseth the olive which gets the oil... understand everything you do not want is everything that will cause you to grow... see? It is only through suffering, climbing to the Pinnacle of that which I despise, that I see the scale of the mountain I must remove, it is only from a very high place I see the web tug and pull at destiny... you want the truth? You cannot handle the Truth, unless you become broken first, destroy all that you know so that a pure temple may be lifted from the ash...

@david-jr5fn Жыл бұрын

@@arturhashmi6281 The Celts don't all have the same origin so it's impossible to say they came from north, south, east or west unless we talk about specific Celts. Gilgamesh reigned around 2700 BCE, which is approximately 4,700 years ago.

@arturhashmi6281 Жыл бұрын

@@david-jr5fn Celts as any indo-european ethnic group came to Europe from Asia thats what I meant, but british Celts believed that they came from the west, You are right about historical Gilgamesh, If he was real, but some of the sumerian kings from their own chronicles ruled ~ 40k years bc, which is just impossible, thats what I meant again

@mickeysquintz9650 Жыл бұрын

HYPERBOREANS

@tedhand6237 Жыл бұрын

So stoked you keep cranking these audiobooks out. This is the content I am here to see.

@garrinking Жыл бұрын

I mean, I was glad to see David brought in this year, both these guys are underrated even Chris as a mega pro deserves that rec!

@Bildgesmythe Жыл бұрын

Always great to see a new upload!

@macavelli8905 Жыл бұрын

Interesting presentation very good video

@SobekLOTFC Жыл бұрын

This was awesome, Dan- keep up the excellent work 👏

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason

@rxno6921 11 ай бұрын

So happy I’ve found this channel. Thank you 🙏

@phillipbernhardt-house6907 Жыл бұрын

Lots of interest here...from the discussion of the Druids (which, I think, really needs to be taken into account when discussing the later Insular Celtic "druids" as if they're more sacerdotal rather than sorcerous!) to the mention of the cynocephalus plant, which I am now wondering if it made it into my discussion of Dogheads or not...I remember coming across the reference, but I might not have included it since it was talking about a plant rather than a monstrous race, though I'll have to check, as this is something that I know I agonized over whether or not to include even in a footnote. (Strange how such things that seem so big in the moment of research and writing can be so easily forgotten a decade and more onwards...!?!) Looking forward to speaking further soon! Thanks for your continued excellent work!

@isacvlad Жыл бұрын

🙏

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

🙏

@wojo6567 Жыл бұрын

I like the video and will be watching many more of your content. My friends like the magic trick where I disappear for some reason. One of these sentences is true and one is false ...you decide.

@FreedomandRights4US Жыл бұрын

♥

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

🙏

@johnnewton8017 Жыл бұрын

“Et in Arcadia ego”

@Jude107c 11 ай бұрын

You have a wonderful fireside voice! Please, add no music to your future readings! Listening to your readings makes me feel like I’m in a dark and cosy library chamber in a manor lit only by a fire place!

@robertpaulcorless7048 Жыл бұрын

Ta Dan x

@ewadsworth Жыл бұрын

💎

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

🙏

@otilium7503 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@1ntrcnnctr608 Жыл бұрын

magnificent

@jasminenwhitaker9717 11 ай бұрын

Good morning everyone blessings 🙌 🙏 ✨️ ❤

@TheModernHermeticist 11 ай бұрын

🙏

@lunam7249 10 ай бұрын

❤

@Cholatemilk1 Жыл бұрын

Heck ya dan

@TheHappinessOfThePursuit Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@leoalvarado6466 11 ай бұрын

I find some of the dates wrong? Zoroastrianism was in 1768 B.C.E. or so ! 😮

@lunam7249 10 ай бұрын

persians in 1768 BC...zoroaster i believe was alive around 900a.d. or 1100 years ago

@NateSpinney 11 ай бұрын

Even the disciples through lots to determine who would be the new disciple bus win such an art, as drawing lots which is a part of the magical arts is conducted in accordance with God and Soli guard then it is not an abomination to his eyes, but pleasing to his will and those who can see understand this most occult truth of the occult

@timnizle1 Жыл бұрын

Well I guess that xplains it, gods never listen ...it's my damnable freckles!! 🤣👌🙏

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

I've got some too, everything makes sense now.

@timnizle1 Жыл бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist 🤣👌

@Bildgesmythe Жыл бұрын

Knew it!

@johnnewton8017 Жыл бұрын

Is that Nero’s birth chart!?

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

yessir, or at least it claims to be

@johnnewton8017 Жыл бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist Friggin fascinating

@mickeysquintz9650 Жыл бұрын

I have two translators translating Liber Vaccae to English as I write this. First time in the public sector. Let me know if you want to talk shop.

@JohnnyPork82 11 ай бұрын

didn't mind unveiled already do that

@dangerouswitch1066 10 ай бұрын

Pliny the elder, glad we have what little ww do.

@retribution999 10 ай бұрын

What about Pico and his natural magic?

@TheModernHermeticist 10 ай бұрын

What about it?

@retribution999 10 ай бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist I'm surprised there was no mention of natural magic as describe by him in Oration on dignity on man.

@TheModernHermeticist 10 ай бұрын

Check this out for the Magical and Orphic Conclusions kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5aGZ5iV1Z22YGg.html

@TheModernHermeticist 10 ай бұрын

(I see from the comments you've already checked it out!)

@deonewilliams2924 19 күн бұрын

Maybe originated with the Tuatha De’ Danann.

@merlinidlehands3302 11 ай бұрын

Bibbty Boptty BOO

@markgamble7699 Жыл бұрын

Biggest magic lies within the kjv bible, for those who read it spiritually… 22 Hebrew Alphabet in Psalms 119… Then again, all religions have the same magic just different names…

@lunam7249 10 ай бұрын

correct!!❤❤ the bible is just 1 big magic book, with "yeh-zues" as its greatest magi...

@NateSpinney 11 ай бұрын

The only reason that Simon, the sorcerer displeased God so much was that his sorcery was not conducted in accordance with God in Sol, Egret God, or even the healing arts, and magics of the apostles, or it could be called nothing other than magic was not an abomination in the eyes were God, because it was done in accordance with God, and solely of God

@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 11 ай бұрын

Who else clicked on this because they thought the dude Barney Gumball got into a bar fight and flogged Wade Boggs over also catalysed the conventional application of magic…. “Lord Palmerston”!

@adildaruwalla.messengerofa2337 Ай бұрын

PLEASE CHANGE TITLE FROM MAGIC TO MIRACLE.

@WitchyWitchOf420 11 ай бұрын

Train.....in Rome ?

@TheModernHermeticist 11 ай бұрын

@johndee3301 11 ай бұрын

"Magic doesn't work because Nero quit practicing. Nero, being insanely greedy, wouldn't have quit if it works, therefore it doesn't work." Not very solid logic from my man Pliny the Elder.

@lunam7249 10 ай бұрын

and how do you explain "steve jobs"?

@johndee3301 10 ай бұрын

@@lunam7249 Steve Jobs? wtf. Jobs was no magician! He was a narcissistic moron who couldn't even connect with his own children. He was just a corporate avatar. Jobs died miserable, shaking with cancer, and regretting his entire life. He was a peasant, lots of money in the bank, but he died a very poor man. Cool sweaters though!