Originally posted April 25, 2016 In discussion of the occult, and especially occult history, the ideas would be incomplete if they did not take secret societies into account. Quickly, let’s dispel with some misconceptions here. This is not going to be a rant about the “New World Order,” although the relevancy of this topic will Read More…
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Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Five
Divination Arts & Modern Science [Dive & Submergence] “I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance “7 AM, The garbage truck beeps Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Four
Initiation & the Pilgrimage of the Fool [Setting Sail] “This town don’t feel mine I’m fast to get away far I dressed you in her clothes Now drive me far away It feels good to know you’re all mine Now drive me far away I don’t care where, just far away.” ~Deftones – Be Quiet and Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Three
Transpersonality: Trees of Life & Death [Shoreline] “One thing meanwhile stands firm: the real, the original, way from the whirlpool lies in heaven. With this finding, one may plunge again into the bewildering jungle of ‘earthly’ myths concerning the Waters from the Deep.” ~Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend [Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 6: The Mystery Initiations of Greece and Egypt
Originally posted April 15, 2016 The “Mysteries” of ancient Greece and Egypt were, in a sense, the original formation of secret societies with ancient knowledge, and were the original formation of this knowledge concentrated within family blood lines. However, this is not meant to demonize the Mystery Initiations with such an equation, but Freemasonry would Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 5: Gnosticism
Originally posted April 10, 2016 The keepers of the Library of Alexandria, and the upholders of the secret Mystery Initiations of Greece and Egypt (See Part 6), Gnosticism remains one of the most poignant parallels to scientific thought out of all mysticism. Deriving its concept of divinity from “gnosis,” which means knowledge, Gnosticism can very Read More…