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Ben Cosgrove

@neoplatonic.org
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Ritual magician working primarily in the Ogdoadic tradition. Esoterically-inclined Freemason. भारत-प्रेमी, member of August Order of Light.

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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 07/07/2025
Some interesting stuff coming out of the rediscovered "Hymn to Babylon": "The information about the women of Babylon, their role as priestesses and the associated tasks, has also astonished experts, as no texts describing these things were previously known."
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Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered
In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the jo...
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 06/07/2025
This use of epithets is similar to that in Hellenism. I can imagine a Neoplatonic / Julian Hellenic ritual installing e.g. the various forms of Zeus in different parts of the body.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 06/07/2025
Similar stuff in the Skanda Purana. It's also covered by the Padma Purana, but that has 250 chapters and about 3600 pages, so good luck! Twelve names are: Keśava, Nārāyaṇa, Mādhava, Govinda, Viṣṇu, Madhusūdana, Trivikrama, Vāmana, Śrīdhara, Hṛṣīkeśa, Padmanābha, and Dāmodara.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 06/07/2025
. @theurgist.bsky.social I did a study on some of the Hindu rituals (both Vaishnava and Shaivite) around this for the August Order of Light. The Vasudeva Upanishad for example has different marks being applied to different parts of the body whilst using the twelve names of deity. (cont..)
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 06/07/2025
You could check the tantric sources and - perhaps even Egyptian ones - and find out the corresponding positions. Would be part of a series of workings though. IMO seems quite similar to ideas from Middle Pillar exercise etc.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 06/07/2025
Mogg Morgan was on a podcast recently talking about Egyptian-Indian shared practices, and IIRC one of those was the practice of "installing" gods into different parts of the body. Religious tattoos fit with that pattern.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 01/07/2025
There used to be a saying - referred to as "Acid Fascism" by some - that LSD made smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows. This article about AI reminded me of that quote. futurism.com/commitment-j...
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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 30/06/2025
Most of my exposure to McKenna was originally through RA Wilson, and yes, years ago. Formational, I suppose. I just had a good laugh asking ChatGPT what a group combining those three texts would look like, and any possible problems.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 30/06/2025
I'm not a witch, so I can't play the game, but I'll bite anyway, on the proviso that I'm just choosing the three books likely to result in the most insanity possible, so: 1. The Archaic Revival (McKenna) 2. The Pilot's Self-Clearing Manual (anon, I guess?) 3. Nightside of Eden (Grant)
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 30/06/2025
Or an asthma inhaler.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 30/06/2025
Female Mr. Benn? I vaguely remember Mona the Vampire. A bit after my time perhaps. I loved Mr. Benn, it may have encouraged my dilettantism.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 28/06/2025
Nice to meet you. Glad to run into someone who's heard of it!
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 26/06/2025
Great book recommendation from Mogg Morgan via his appearance on "The Magician and the Fool" podcast. Good episode.
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Ben Cosgrove @neoplatonic.org · 20/05/2025
Incredibly lazy and irresponsible journalism here from the BBC. Scientists can't explain "why" our universe exists. Science is definitionally incapable of answering that question. This feeds into the false idea that science has answers for everything. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Scientists in race to discover why our Universe exists
Researchers in the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies.
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