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Platonism, Romanticism and Black Metal

[Shub @goatofthousand]

I'm kinda of a centrist you know...

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 Alas, we won't see another Iamblichus or Proclus anytime soon. The point is that these men possessed a genuineconnection to God(s) through their rites.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 Yet, doesn't make them frauds or completely wrong in their approaches.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 Maybe you just have tunnel-vision, or even worse, a skeptic.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 I agree, but I reject your literalist reading that "the gods abandoned us."

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 When the public institutions of religion collapse, the true philosopher must personally carry the spiritual weight of the entire world by honoring the rites.

https://t.co/GIYShBYYOL

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 "It was a phrase he much used, and that was very familiar to him, that a philosopher should watch over the salvation of not only a city, nor over the national customs of a few people, but that he should be the hierophant of the whole world in common."

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 Plato’s ban in the Laws is for a city with public temples to promote civic unity and prevent superstition, innovations and such, not a timeless command against all private devotion. Proclus himself kept personal and theurgic practices.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 This is a literalist reading, no different from Christians saying that "Plutarch told that the oracles went silent."

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[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @DanielAJones93 From Damascius

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@parhypostates @LukewarmDrinker @Hyperaionian @DanielAJones93 dealing with witches / dealing with Butler

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@LukewarmDrinker @Hyperaionian @parhypostates @DanielAJones93 Her understanding of Platonism is a watered-down version of Macrobius at best. When it comes to Thelema, Wicca and such, I couldn't care less. Maybe she's good, idk.
https://t.co/oNjFPkqeop

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@LukewarmDrinker @Hyperaionian @parhypostates @DanielAJones93 Garbage like this will just condemn your soul.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@LukewarmDrinker @Hyperaionian @parhypostates @DanielAJones93 But here’s the problem, if you don’t understand the metaphysics, you're just a blind operator pushing buttons without knowing how the engine works and leaves you wide open to just practicing low-level goeteia.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@metamundanity N*ɓɓa got caught professing tritheism 😭😭😭😭

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@hope_pead @UrizenVid Actually, he is paraphrasing Hermes in the passage of the Asclepius.

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian So I can just reply and you drop an unrelated pearl of wisdom?

[Shub @goatofthousand]

@Hyperaionian @daatdarling Stop simping

[Shub @goatofthousand]

"the point where all of the Gods merge into Union". Can modern occultists stop talking about metaphysics until they actually read Plato?

[Georgina Rose 🌌 @daatdarling]

All the times Plato says “God” he is referring to the point where all of the Gods merge into Union, the Godhead, not the Abrahamic God. The point above separation.
I guess I don’t mind Christians spreading pagan religious thought, but a bit odd!