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The Secret Societies - 8/23/2023
The year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and ...
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SHIT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MOREAl-Ghazali Book of Invocations and Supplications was hella influential on DeeRamon Lull Put this guy before the Renaissance SagesFicinoPicoReuchlinAgrippaParacelsus Put this section after agrippa and before Dee THE PAGES SO FAR (final page count: 100) Discussion of terms Neoplatonism Who Were the Gnostics An overview of Gnostic Mythology - - ANCIENT JEWISH MAGIC What...
FULL TEXT SO FAR - 5/august/23
A DISCUSSION OF TERMSMagic: Magic is inf
Alchemy - 31/7/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like yoursel...
Alchemy - 7/27/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like yoursel...
alchemy: 23/july/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like yoursel...
ALCHEMY - July/17/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like yoursel...
Alchemy - 12/July/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like yoursel...
ALCHEMY - 8th/July/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAWHAT EVEN IS ALCHEMY?Tat: “O great pop-history esoterica blogger, what is Alchemy?”C.T: “My student, alchemy can be neatly summed up as “proto-chemistry.” For most of history there have been people like y...
Alchemy - 3/July/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAMARIA HEBREA, THE FIRST ALCHEMIST - 1 page No later than the 1st-3rd century Was probably real, contemporary with the copus hermeticum,valentenian gnosticism Most information coems from Zosimos, who calls her “Am...
Alchemy - 26/june/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAPART 1: THE FORERUNNERS OF ALCHEMYHERMES TRISMEGISTUS Probably not an ancient egyptian priest Probably and early roman greco-egyptian person, or someone styling himself after that Not necessarily an alchemist himse...
ALCHEMY - 25/june/2023
SOURCES[1]: The Alchemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart[2]: The Cambridge Core Alchemy Reader by Stanton J. LindenC.T. KELLY’S SPEEDRUN GUIDE TO ALCHEMY V1.0 BETAPART 1: THE FORERUNNERS OF ALCHEMYHERMES TRISMEGISTUS Probably not an ancient egyptian priest Probably and early roman greco-egyptian person, or someone styling himself after that Not necessarily an alchemist himse...
Paracelsus - 18/June/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Doctor, lay-theologian, grandfather of toxicology, and quite possibly the most important alchemist in history, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would...
Paracelsus - 14/June/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
Paracelsus - 6/13/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
Defining Terms - 6/june/2023
A DISCUSSION OF TERMSMagic: Magic is infamously difficult to define. Ask a Roman centurion, a Zhao dynasty scholar, an American revival preacher, for their definition of magic, and they will give you wonderfully varied answers. Magic changes depending on time period, culture, location, and historical moment. A book could be a tome of powerful magical secrets on one side of a river, and a text of o...
Paracelsus - 6/june/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
Paracelsus - 5/june/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
Defining Terms - 3/june/2023
A DISCUSSION OF TERMSMagic: Magic is infamously difficult to define. Ask a Roman centurion, a Zhao dynasty scholar, an American revival preacher, for their definition of magic, and they will give you wonderfully varied answers. Magic changes depending on time period, culture, location, and historical moment. A book could be a tome of powerful magical secrets on one side of a river, and a text of o...
Paracelsus - 3/june/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
John Dee - 3/june/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed what it meant t
Paracelsus - 25/may/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
Paracelsus - 17/may/2023
PARACELSUSSometimes, good ideas need a bastard. Alchemist, doctor, lay-theologian, and grandfather of toxicology, Phillipus Aruelious Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem –better known as Paracelsus– was a preeminent shit-talker in a Europe that already contained Martin Luther. He was the five-foot-nothing, always-armed-with-a-sword bastard who would draw from alchemy and magic to lay the groun...
John Dee - 16/march/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed what it meant t
John Dee - 11/may/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed what it meant to practice magic. Occultist, Alchemist, Astronomer, Mathematician, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.The son of a wealth...
John Dee - 5/may/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed what it meant to practice magic. Occultist, Alchemist, Astronomer, Mathematician, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.The son of a wealth...
John Dee - 9/May/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed what it meant to practice magic. Occultist, Alchemist, Astronomer, Mathematician, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.The son of a wealth...
John Dee - 5/april/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed the game. Occultist, Alchemist, Astronomer, Mathematician, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.The son of a wealthy Welsh textile merchan...
John Dee - 2/may/2023
JOHN DEEJohn Dee changed the game. Occultist, Alchemist, Astronomer, Mathematician, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.The son of a wealthy Welsh textile merchan...
John Dee - April/28/2023
JOHN DEE(We gotta talk about Paracelcus before this)Occultist, Alchemist, Mathematician, Antiquarian, Humanist, Wife-swapper, Court Magician to Queen Elizabeth I, and quite possibly the most educated person alive at the time, John Dee represents the pinnacle of Renaissance magic and learning. He is a figure so influential, he threatens to take over an introductory text like this one.Where other oc...
