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Rosicrucian Road Trip: Angels, Airwaves, & Anti-Aging Alchemical Rites in the City of Brotherly Love
🕑 Added 2023-06-08 19:31:32 +0000 UTCHeads up, Boston brahmin Watchers, I'm releasing some of the Free Feed EPs slightly out of order so that I can get the full version of "Rosicrucian Road Trip: AMORC, San Jose, Crowley Sexpionage, etc. (Pt. II)" to you a little quicker. So just be aware that, on the Premium Feed differs slightly. I believe the order will be the following once I have everything up: EP 6, EP 8, EP 1, EP 9, EP 10, EP 11, EP 2, EP 3, EP 4, EP 5, EP 7. It still mostly works, as series are mostly grouped together. But just wanted to let you know in case you'd like to listen to everything sequentially. Alright, here are the notes for EP 9.
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Willkommen zurück bei ParaPower Mapping; mein name ist Klonny Gosch. We're taking a road trip today—all aboard the Boston Brahmin Watch tour bus.
That's right, we're heading south to Philly to explore the German Pietist & Rosicrucian sect known as the Chapter of Perfection and their communitarian community on Schuylkill River. Get ready for some colonial-era angel/ alien sightings and more alchemical weirdness.
This EP includes:
The Boston Brahmin Watch bus origin story; an intro to Johannes Kelpius, his birth in Transylvania (harmonizing this EP's vampire theme), matriculation at the Uni of Altdorf, and conversion into the Pietist collegium called the Chapter of Perfection; the Chapter of Perfection's influences (Phillip Jacob Spener, Johannes Valentin Andreæ, Paracelsus, Jakob Böhme, cabalists like von Rosenroth, etc.); the Chapter of Perfection's emigration to the New World; their pansophic & millenarian beliefs; the Chapter's selection of Society of the Woman in the Wilderness as the name for their new commune, inspired by Revelation and the war in heaven; Kelpius's Diarium; the Chapter's purported celibacy; a goofy entry from Kelp's journal that includes a Latin pun on body orifices that seems to hint at possibly antinomian or sexually transgressive practices among the members; the Chapter's vessel Sarah Mariah Hopewell getting marooned on a sandbar and "God's intervention" at Kelpius's behest, saving their voyage by lifting the ship to safety w/ a massive wave; a battle against 3 French ships on the high seas; the Chapter & the British captain seizure of the slaves aboard the defeated French vessel, & the possibility that the Chapter owned slaves; their settlement in colonial Philly; their gematric & numerological beliefs, and their insistence on keeping their order to only 40 members; their 40 sq ft tabernacle, which was built to conform to the holiness of the 40 (the decade of the perfect number); the crude observatory they built on their property; Kelpius's hermit cave, which he hollowed out to serve as his anchorite-esque hermitage & alchemical laboratory; their pursuit of the Elixir of Life; Chapter of Perfection expert Julius Sachse and his comparisons between the Chapter & the Cathars; Cabalistic symbols of numbers; the Monad; 4, the equal perfect number & symbol of deity; the Chapter's attempts at proselytizing to the Indigenous; evidence of the prevalence of historiographical beliefs in Native American Hebrew ancestry among the Chapter of Perfection, and a little speculation that they may have been familiar w/ John Dee's favorite Prince Madoc theories; a momentary detour into discussing Köster's belief that their indigenous neighbors were descended from "Celt-Iberian" or "Celt-Hebrew" peoples / one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel; questions of the settler-colonial utility of these kinds of beliefs; visits from emissaries sent by the King of Sweden; more searching for universale menstruum; the Chapter of Perfection's inaccurate apocalyptic timeline; the crazy account of an angel sighting by the Monks on the Wissahickon; multiple stories of remote viewing & teleportation among Chapter of Perfection members; the death of Johannes Kelpius; his assistant's disobedience and attempt to hide his arcanum, which Kelpius saw w/ his 3rd eye; another account of a ship Capt.'s wife visiting Conrad Matthai, who used his abilities to locate her husband; regenerative Elixir of Life rites; a note about vampiric alchemists; and much, much more.
Songs:
| Willie Nelson - "On the Road Again (Live)" |
| Angelo Badalamenti - "Audrey's Dance" (Twin Peaks OST) |
| Roky Erickson - "Night of the Vampire" |
Comments
ParaPower Mapping
Ooh, hell yeah, you should do it & report back. Also consider seeing if there are any Julius Sachse books in your local libraries, too. There are digital copies online, incredibly. But his histories of the Monks, the Cloister, & German esotericism & Rosicrucianism in colonial Pennsylvania are fascinating books (and rare & luxurious 19th & early 20th century printings). I might also call on you to look into George Lippard at some point, if you’re interested
Dang Heck
I live and was raised pretty darn near the Ephrata Cloister, and I have only recently considered visiting. This might hurry that.
