The capitalistic spirit is inherently negative spiritually. It is non-transparent. It spreads the illusion that the true worth of an individual is their place in the machine.

As Iamblichus, Agrippa, and Tanabe knew, reason breaks down when it attempts to understand the world in purely logical and self-willed terms.

Here we find purified souls literally helping maintain and run creation. They also help other souls to attain the heavenly dimensions.

Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.

Are you strong enough to manifest your beauty to the world? Will you find the courage to rule fate and command the Good into being?

The mystery story is not about how life becomes dead matter but how life arose from dead matter.

If society collapses, it won’t be - as Coxon fears - because a malicious superintelligence defeated us. It will occur because humans chose to automate their own responsibility and watch passively.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. - Nietzsche

Dostoevsky realized that because of her pregnancy, she was possessed by a transient psychosis and therefore was not culpable for the incident.

As with other isms, this would be a form of mind control. That would seem to be contrary to the spirit of what Plato and other pagan philosophers taught.

[The justice system] does not comprehend the fact that reasoning activities in the cortex can be hijacked and subjugated by subcortical affective processes.

I read Freud as a teenager - notably its use in literary criticism - and have always felt his light in the basement to be a beacon for clarity and health.

For Kabbalists, one does not selfishly hoard the gifts of the divine for oneself but share with all. That is true loss of ego.

Immersing yourself in the One without preparation in virtue will blow your nervous system to shreds.

Immersing yourself in the One without preparation in virtue will blow your nervous system to shreds.

It will open the gates on the path to the One.

In the technologizing of society and culture, a deformed variant of reason threatens to throttle the natural passions.

Theurgy and the Way of Hermes are a preliminary stage in an unfolding eternal drama of the divine. In them we see the first attempts at a rational, scientific knowledge of the divine and its workings.

Anger at what we lack spiritually is a prelude to channeling the negative to positive virtues and spiritual insights.

[O]ccult practices can break through this social conditioning and set us on the path to self-discovery and expanding consciousness.

She unbends a crooked world into a path of light leading out of oblivion.

This is not the time for a return to some supposed pristine, pure past. That is the way of the fundamentalisms and their tribal anachronisms.

And like its clone in Revelation, it dupes the people into betraying their own self-interests and following the terror like a character in a horror film drawn to the monster that will kill them.

For it’s not the same as sensory experience but the experience of life itself, the unfiltered thought that Henri Bergson calls intuition.

As Theurgists, knowing our selves is paramount not only in our engagement with the mundane world but also the entities of other worlds/dimensions.

As to the use of mind-expanding substances, “the church” views them as inherently immoral and a grave sin.

Why hasn’t Bruno been rehabilitated or absolved? What lie of “the church” did he lay bare?

ALT: Brenda Leigh Johnson from The Closer

This means that Chaldean Theurgy is not fundamentalist in the sense that many pagans seem to be in quest of.

"[T]he authorities on the priestly art have thus discovered how to gain the favor of powers above, mixing some things together and setting others apart in due order."

When paganism was murdered … How much we lost when Christianity destroyed pagan culture and wiped out about 95% of classical writings. Hear ancient Theurgist Proclus about life in the cosmos: For t...

From the liberation of women, to civil rights to sexual liberation, the age to come has marvels yet to reveal.

I believe that Jesus was a theurgist, and I believe that by learning Theurgy I too can perform great deeds.

The goal of each life is to remember the name or primordial self that we had in the other world. We are reborn to perfect creation and to bring salvation to others.

"Our teachers were pursued, and the remaining property of the school was confiscated by the state treasury..."

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"The Goddess gladly leads him upwards to herself, or rather keeps him by her side."

ALT: The Dark Side of Poldark

Xtian Nationalism, along with its related fundamentalist cousins - Jewish, Islamic, Hindu - must be opposed and defeated at all turns.

History cannot present us with the real since it is always coming to be and changing, so any assertion of a historical fact will be challenged and changed, given time.

The New Age did not fail. It shed the first layer of skin in what has become a never-ending spiritual evolution.

In accepting my journey of death - living to die, as the Greek sages used to say - I set out on the path to the palace of wisdom.

From the womb of creation, the divine dance begins.