Derek Lorian

Pagan Wizard, Radical Polytheist, Hellenic Ceremonialist, Herakles Cultist, Health Enthusiast, Anti-Abrahamic, Spiritual Realist, Occultist, Ritual Engineer

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@NoHylics69 Some good books there, but none of them are banned.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@Heliotrophy In the shorter term, we just need better math and programmers. There's still no good election calculating software even though it's a theoretically easy problem.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@skibidi_adolf Failure to understand general occultism leads to all sorts of problems for Pagans on both sides of the reconstruction divide. But this isn't solvable; most Pagans aren't really interested in occultism and magic as a whole, nor should they be. Pagan laity need only know the hows.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@Heliotrophy Is Manilius the originator of this scheme, or just describing it? Agrippa calls it 'Orphic'. I've found it to be fruitful for contemplation.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@mjolnerwolf "Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first." - Peter J. Carroll

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Reminder that when you say something is ‘fascinating’ you are actually saying you have been enchanted by this guy – Fascinus, the embodiment of the divine phallus. ‘Fascinate’ derives from the Latin verb ‘fascinare’, meaning to bewitch through the magical power of the fascinus.

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

The very term "peer review" did not exist til the 1970s and the entire institution was basically invented as a way to formalize getting grant money from the US government in the late 20th century

19th century golden age scientists published then other scientists READ them

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

Provided we take the story at face value, yes, and it's not even unusual; it was fairly standard for magicians in those times to seek adoption by one god or another, becoming a 'son of god'.

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

In Pagan terms Jesus is specifically a heros (the word from which we get “hero”), a human soul that has transcended humanity and become a daimon through whom a god, specifically his father, is able to manifest more fully on the human plane.

From the perspective of the history of ideas, as this might suggest, a huge amount of post-medieval Christian theology is a cascade of misunderstandings of classical Pagan thought filtered through a completely different mental and cultural framework.

[Joshua Christopher Ruebl @JRuebl47185]

Christians massacred anyone who didn’t follow along exactly with their theology. Many Christians were burnt at the stake over slight theological disagreements.

These people also act like infanticide and leaving babies in dumpsters didn’t continue until this day in “Christian” societies. Most Greeks and Romans didn’t kill their children. Most unwanted children were left outside in case someone else wanted them. Of course severely deformed children were abandoned. That’s natural and it carried on during Christian times.

Christianity is crumbling because people can actually read now and understand the classical world. They can also read and learn that children have always been abandoned. This only changed when the West became so affluent that the poor could finally marginally afford their children.

These distortions are easy to see through.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@aionaktaion Sometimes it's worthwhile to throw bits of wisdom into the void, but I wouldn't want to make a habit of it. Good ideas require book length expositions.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@JRuebl47185 Theatrical ritual is one of the keys to reviving the mysteries. A magician is necessarily an artist.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@JRuebl47185 This is a good argument. There were about 1000 years of darkness between the Christianization of Rome and the Renaissance.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@HammerandVajra I think the distinction is between the various BTWs and American Wicca post-Starhawk.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@auny_marie @grok @the_Theurgist I've found Grok to be persistently obtuse when it comes to discussing parapsychology, always favoring a skeptical angle in line with mainstream bias despite parapsychology being more experimentally validated than most other fields. Ironically, Grok can discuss magic just fine.

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

Wow! Studying reincarnation is apparently something medical schools do now. This is a great way to do scientific religion instead of religious science.

[AunMarie @auny_marie]

@Dreklorian Yes, reincarnation is found in all the IE Traditions. In addition, modern scientific evaluation has pretty much validated the concept.

Children Who Report Memories of Past Lives - Division of Perceptual Studies https://t.co/6SR3uE63mS

[Derek Lorian @Dreklorian]

@MinaBackup44 It's the Pagan version of the 2nd religiosity, revivalism with a materialist bent. To my knowledge, the only god concerned with bloodlines is Yahweh. And the fact remains that gods in real life don't seem to care at all about the race of their invokers/worshippers.

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

Life expectancy is a complex matter. Plenty of people in the Middle Ages lived into ripe old age, and remained robustly healthy at that age.

The reason average life expectancy in earlier periods was so low is that a very large share (sometimes more than half) of the children born died by the age of 5; then there was another period of dieoff in the late teens, males dying in battle, females in their first pregnancy. If you made it past those, you had something close to modern life expectancy.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

I always loved "Donald in Mathmagic Land".

It wasn't just a children's cartoon; it was an intentional lesson in principles usually reserved for initiatic orders.

It introduces Donald to Pythagoras and the core concepts of sacred geometry: the Pythagorean theorem, the mathematical complexity of the pentagram, and the Golden Ratio.

This isn't accidental or a simple educational tool it presented the "secret Pythagorean society."

The Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence, as demonstrated in the cartoon, are not just mathematical curiosities; they are the fundamental building blocks of this this reality.

They are the visible signature of the geometric code that underpins everything from atomic structures to galactic spirals.

With the right eyes, you can see what was encoded here.

[Aristotle 🏛️ @Aristotle7777]

Women used to be 30 years old married with 3 children and a husband living in a house they owned, with a high enough standard of living that she didn’t even need to work and could stay home.

Now 30 year old women have slept with 30 guys, have no children, are not married, live in an apartment and have to go to work full time just to survive.

This isn’t progress, this is societal decline and a dramatically lower quality of life being sold to women as their liberation when in reality it is their enslavement.