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I am reading in "A treatise on Cosmic Fire" by Alice Bailey pg 466 about a group ritual that needs to be "accurately" perfomed that would probably start the process of women mating with angels, on a larger scale, as to further evoulution. I think it would be a Vishnu/Dino ritual because of the nature of what the initiation process produces, where do you think i would look for it if im impatiently curious? Mithra rituals? Egyptian magic rituals? Freemason rituals were mentioned. I know you don't do her time period but when I think you'll understand why i ask, when HPBlavotsky says she is, not being dogmatic about the processes of initation, does that mean that because people come from different backgrounds genetically, racially, that initation won't have the same processes? like if an person from japan was to do this ceremony to draw down an angel, would they go through different steps then say an mormon, or an arabic person, etc? Cats/dogs/octopus/ants/spiders all have different ratios or something for transmutation? I know we would only be working with those that are already spiritually inclined, but just wondering. And because some peoples havent produced fruit, like mormon, would it just be easier, or would it look like a differnt thing then say someone that is written in the bible that has? any clue where i would find that kind of knowledge? On page 487 are the ratios to the Deo sigil of Solomons, ($MILE) (so you can live as a gollum more comfortably and not tun windigo after initiation, or fail and fall from bet to just a Christ after fasting for 8 days and only eating two so you can write the book) mentioned in this video. Are you seeing any variation in the letters/words on the outside of the various copies of that sigil? Thank you Doctor Sledge for all your great content and scholastic work.
Im looking at the sigil right now, and I know that an angel represents a day when fasting, im wondering if it would be an hour or a mile if i was walking., the burning of the internal fires, are what we are trying to stoke for it to be counted as half an angel. Hmmm... It's a sun,,a day, so i wonder if its the amount of time daily, which doesn't account for intensity of work out. I'm sure of the first two ratios at least just not the units. fasting a whole day is easy to count, it just a turn. Never even, never odd.
maybe its E=MC squared? i need to experiment with units. everything is measured in light it puts out so we can grow a field. would primary source books have more light then secondary sources written by most people? probably. but what about evil peoples books, would they have less fire, or if they go from good to evil would their fire in their causal body chamge the rating of their books? or would stuff that they right from the point they turned evil forward have a lesser fire?
I have zero doubt in my mind that after all of that preparation, fasting, meditation, ceremony, props, and all around psychological priming that these people would absolutely have extremely vivid dreams/visions.
This reminds me of the Yom Kipper video where he talks about how the Chief Priest of the Jerusalem Temple had to fast and avoid sleep for an extended period to be pure enough to enter the Holy of Holies and offer a prayer to God who while burning incense.Which I guess made it easier to talk to god
I like how you said magic used to be encouraged, I believe in magic still to this day and the Bible holds accounts of many magical acts taken place by those god had appointed. Thanks for the informative upload!
Oh my goodness. This just made me think - we should create an RP community completely about the clerical necromantic underground. We can all make characters. 😂
“Your property tax has been cast as a time constrained hex that will drain your electric solvency (debit card) until you obtain the sigil of “Paid in Full”. “
Engaging and excellent content as always Dr. Sledge! Thanks for the shout-out to my edition and translation. Wow - I’m an O.G now? Haha. Note: In my forthcoming 3rd edition of John Dee’s Mysteriorum Libri Quinque I argue that Dee probably also owned Sloane 3854. Also, my edition + translation of Liber Trium Animarum is available in print at a very reasonable price.
I just visited the link for the online notes accompanying your translation of the _Liber Juratus Honorii_ and although I've read very little of the text found the introduction (ending 'whoever copies this sacred text without permission from the editor will be damned') very entertaining. I'll add your works to the ever lengthening list of books that I want to read, if not in this lifetime then in some subsequent one (it's a long list!).
I'm doing initiation work and I'm wondering if my ratios for using the Deo sigil are correct? I used Ibn Arabi, "Openings revealed at MAkkah" and page 487 in "Treatise on Cosmic Fire" by ALice Bailey for figuring out the purification ratios.. A kingdom is 8, the beginning and the end are both Kindeness, so its a week long tABLE. Fasting is one turn of an angel a day, exercise is 1/2 an angel per mile/hour? 1/3 the third i think is reading/studying and fourth is praying. I think. ??? I know I can wake at night and it considered gambling, because the sun might not be there, and i have to wake up before sunrise to keep any of the gambling accumulated for sunlight. What do you think about any of this?
@@rockk9753 I am quite open minded actually, but you understand especially in esoteric topics one needs to be extremely sceptic as lots of people claim lots of things, which are not verifyable. I've yet to experience anything supernatural, which couldn't be explained through coincidence or randomness. I believe you can probably have real spiritual experiences doing such rituals, but I've yet to see any documentation which proofs, that they also happen outside of ones concious or subconcious mind. Can you elaborate a bit more what exactly you have done? You don't have to answer if this is too personal. Furthermore why would you want to see demons in the first place? Why wouldn't you rather try to find god or helpful entities, instead of literal evil?
@@rockk9753So why are you still looking into such topics, if you had such bad experiences? One thing is for sure, trying to actively do wrong upon people poisons your own mind, even if you might have had valid reasons. Anyways thanks for the information. It's good you found something positive out of this situation and I wish you that you find peace with God.
Love it when you collaborate with Dr. Puca! I always learn something completely new when I watch her videos and interviews. I was not terribly familiar with the Sworn Book of Honorius and I look forward to learning more about it. Thanks to you both!
The opening introduction literally brought me to tears. Thank you deeply and as always for all you do to make these sacred texts more accessible. Blessings Dr Sledge!
What I love the most about collaborations between Dr. Sledge and Dr. Pucca is that they're like mirror images of each other. Dr. Sledge has this appearance of being serious and sober, but makes jokes all the time, while Dr. Pucca looks like a run of the mill bubbly friendly goth, but has a very well studied academic.approach to the topics she deals with. It seems like one channel is all serious study and the other all campy fun but in reality both have a lot of both
In a dream? I want my money back Honorius! I'm fascinated by these bridge-like texts that not only reach out in their own time in many directions but also act as conduits for older traditions, seeing both the corruption and innovation in motion through the ages reveals more than the rituals themselves. The more we can fill in the manner, method, and motivations of the transmission of traditions the cleaner the image we'll be able to produce, so it's good to hear it's become a topic of interest.
What a pleasure: the rare combination of intellect, knowledge, and a magnificent sense of humor , as well as the subtle criticism of zealis religious foolishness
“Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay To trace the backward way. For when youth passes with its giddy train, Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils, Pain, pain forever pain; And none escapes life's coils. Envy, sedition, strife, Carnage and war, make up the tale of life.” ― Sophocles
I would just like to say, that having been raised in an...let's say... EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE environment, it came as some shock to me that the "true name" consists of 73 words in total, and that they just shortened it by using the first letter of each of the 73 WORDS to make a name with 73 LETTERS. The stuff I didn't get taught is so freaking interesting.
Rumi Missabu aka James Bartlett of The Cockettes just passed away a week or so ago, and while reading his obituary in The New York Times, I saw that his adopted names were mentioned. He loved Rumi and admitted that was where his first name came from, but the article claimed his friends were clueless about the provenance of Missabu. And so was I, until I saw Missabu listed as one of the aerial spirits of the Moon in a snippet from one of the Sworn Book manuscripts that you included here. Now I must let those Cockettes I’m friends with know the story. Thank you as always for your amazing work, Justin, and may Rumi sail with the Moon forever.
I'm gobsmacked at the calligraphy AND the illumination/diagrams. It's just gorgeous! I'd love to have a copy of it - even printed - with the original calligraphy and illuminations intact. What a treasure THAT would be!
So thankful for all the hard work and dedication and knowledge laid out. This outlet is a beautiful symphony of ancient thoughts and emotions for us to hear and experience. The minds of many before us and the world they envisioned both physically and spiritually. Your mind displays the voices from the past so we can enjoy the vast depth authors scribed. Showcasing the written and not straying to sides …leaving viewers to make that decision. Always great content.
😃 Hi, Dr. Justin! Dr. Angela Puca's video brought me to yours. This collab is superb! 🤩 Thank you for telling us about Liber Juratus Honorii! Man, I think I fell in love with it! It's so thrilling and I also would like to watch some performance of it! This video is totally fascinating! Glad to be one of Esoterica's treasure subscribers! 😃👋
This was the first grimoire I read and a major influence on every aspect of my life! I read this book online when I was only 14 and it gave me new ways of thinking about my ongoing religious education and informed my choices in the art I experienced and resultingly made. I am probably following this channel today (as well as being where I am generally) because I read this book. I am so excited to see you finally cover it! Thank you so much, Justin!
This video is absolutely Rock and ROLL, as your work normally is! Thank you, Dr. Sledge! I'm very much with the author of the Book of Honorius, at least on the issue of the Inquisition and the church hierarchy that inflicted it upon the world- those psychos were CERTAINLY in league with the forces of darkness, by whichever name you care to label them! I loved your remarks about the fact that Magic has, weirdly, despite all the persecution and demonization it has endured, actually won in the long run... I found that touching and inspiring in a way that surprised me. Anyway, I wish you all the best as always! May beatific visions happen for all who wish them, says I. --N
As always, thank you so much for the content! I was wondering, have you ever considered doing a video on the Grecco-Roman concept of the Daemon/Tutelary/Genius? Considering the arguable essential component the concept plays in numerous Esoteric systems. I think most modern practitioners (and even some scholars) tend to associate the idea with the Christian conception of the demonic. A video on its history and later developments into the midevil period and renaissance could be very useful!
"That's called read the book for your own damn self." It must be on a t-shirt or hoodie. You caught me with that one. Almost spit up on my computer. Love your channel and very informative.
So I’m not any kind of academic anything. I just find this stuff so fascinating. Thank you for sharing this on TH-cam. Very cool channel. I’m going to change the names of everything and use this stuff in my dnd games
Or better practice it...oh wait ..its too hard to get up at 3am every morning...its true what they say...the weak will give up and never reach the mysteries 😂
Thank you for and sharing your love of Academia. I love your channel. Late in life I know but I just earned a BA but the more I learn the more money I don’t have
I will wait (ref: fore due course, to look upon The Divine - it's seems enough that if HIS eyes upon the sparrow 'i know' HE watches ME 🎶 That said, gratitude for The Doctors expertise
Didn't think I'd hear much about the Catholics in this one. One of my favorite books is "The Name of the Rose", and it was interesting to hear the bit about the argument for living in poverty as Christ.
It’s fun that an early/mid stage of inducing a beatific vision is asking the angels if you should proceed. That gives it a neat escape hatch in that if you don’t actually wind up having the vision, people can shrug and say, “Ehhhhh I guess you just didn’t listen to the angels.“ In any case, whether it’s 40 days or 72 days, this all seems like so much more worry and bother than a nice cup of shroom tea. 😁
Superb as always! I haven't studied this text, but I've heard about it for years...A number of things you mentioned here make me eager to see/hear Dr. Puca's take on it, as I wonder if things like the implied numerology of the text had an influence on Crowley, for example. Having worked with some asemic operations before, and having a general interest in voces magicae/"barbarous names," it was interesting to me to read through what you reproduced on-screen when referring to those portions of the text. I don't know if it was just my own odd vision (as in: my eyes don't function quite right) or something else, but as I was reading through them with the video paused, things went wonky for a second...and while I am more apt to ascribe this to my own ocular abnormalities, still, one wonders if this deliberate boggling of the senses might be not only the purpose of such practices, but also (when intensified by other practices like sleep deprivation or fasting) the beginnings of whatever altered sensual experiences were understood as the beatific visions instilled by the operation. Or, maybe not. But if it leads to treasure as an after-effect, hey, why not? ;)
The hardest medieval achievement to unlock. "You want me to say -what- during communion?" This video is a real... treasure. ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° I look forward to Dr. Puca's video. (I also think I need to watch "Inquisition Manuals - The Rise of Torture & How Magic Became Heresy" and then watch this a second time.)
Good to see you again my soul brother I really love your content no BS just sitting in your office explaining n breaking down knowledge n wisdom most wanna put up AI generated images n trust AI to tell the truth LMFAO 😅 I've seen the truth of AI it is a joke all lies but when a competent HUMAN being gets behind the wheel 🛞🎡🛞 it goes more smoothly n competently AI is counting on the fact that most humans will not do any research to fact check any misleading content they just blindly trust 🤥 AI my brother 🙏🏿😇♾️🫶🏿 oh and the subtle lisp is the nail 💅🏿 on he head 🗣️ brother keep up the great work 💪🏿🦾💪🏿
I was going to make a joke like I usually do. (Or weirdly fly off the handle sometimes.) I think Jewish esoteric practices ultimately won in the end for several reasons. But ultimately, those with power at the time exploit others. And ultimately, those are exploited often come back with more cogent points than before. On a personal note, this channel is helping me understand modern academic Jewish thought. Thank you. (To relieve your anxiety because this is the internet. Marginalized Polish American. Not one of the bad ones.)
Thank you . Gosh , it's great to hear about Medieval Tic toc . As regards John Dee , who in communing with his Angel through his interpreter , Edward Kelly , who was the only one capable of interpreting the word of this angel .was told by this Angel that the said interpreter should be allowed to sleep with Dees' wife . I'm tired now .
~Shalom Ha-Rav.~ 🙇🏻 I felt an internal unction to ask a question unto the master…if I may be so bold? First and foremost, your channel, your content, and above all…your psyche/sál/soul are all one of a kind! Honest and forsooth. It’s has, with all haste and velocity, become mine one and only for all things magical, occult, arcane, esoteric, mystical, etc. All others do not hold a candle to the supermassive blue star that is Esoterica. I am looking to know which foundational/rudimentary grimoires/books you might recommend unto someone looking to submerge within the abyssal, watery depths of thaumaturgy/wonder working/miracle working/practical magic? 🤔 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~Sincerely, ~ ~ John Joseph Foxall ~ ~ Ha Vetr Wærlogi ~ Post script, if you happen to know of any elementary books concerning astrology and alchemy, I would be eternally grateful… With unction, a self-dubbed acolyte of yours.
Hey, Doc. Great video as always, but I've been wondering. Could you make a video about the "Book of saint Cipryan"? It very interesting as a rehash of many grimoires at the same time that is a proto Faust ( and proto Darth Vader on the redemption before death makes you a saint/force ghost no matter what you did before). It is a very popular/infamous grimoire in spanish and Portuguese speaking countries... and you know... has spells to find treasures.
If you are intersted in seeing a movie that's using a similar or maybe this ritual, look for a movie called "A Dark Song". The entire movie is them stuck in a house for weeks performing one long ritual with an occult priest and mourning mother who is trying to see her dead son again. I think it captures some of what you talked about here.
I'd tell you the name of my favorite band, but you've probably never heard of them. They're a death metal/goa trance fusion band called The Clerical Necromantic Underground. The bass drops will knock you dead, then the guitar solos will resurrect you.
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Thankyou Dr Justin for all that you do. All the best :)
Hey Doctor Sledge.
Any chance you could look into the blurry origins of Tarot? I'd love to hear what the scholarly view on it is.
I am reading in "A treatise on Cosmic Fire" by Alice Bailey pg 466 about a group ritual that needs to be "accurately" perfomed that would probably start the process of women mating with angels, on a larger scale, as to further evoulution. I think it would be a Vishnu/Dino ritual because of the nature of what the initiation process produces, where do you think i would look for it if im impatiently curious? Mithra rituals? Egyptian magic rituals? Freemason rituals were mentioned. I know you don't do her time period but when I think you'll understand why i ask, when HPBlavotsky says she is, not being dogmatic about the processes of initation, does that mean that because people come from different backgrounds genetically, racially, that initation won't have the same processes? like if an person from japan was to do this ceremony to draw down an angel, would they go through different steps then say an mormon, or an arabic person, etc? Cats/dogs/octopus/ants/spiders all have different ratios or something for transmutation? I know we would only be working with those that are already spiritually inclined, but just wondering. And because some peoples havent produced fruit, like mormon, would it just be easier, or would it look like a differnt thing then say someone that is written in the bible that has? any clue where i would find that kind of knowledge?
On page 487 are the ratios to the Deo sigil of Solomons, ($MILE) (so you can live as a gollum more comfortably and not tun windigo after initiation, or fail and fall from bet to just a Christ after fasting for 8 days and only eating two so you can write the book) mentioned in this video. Are you seeing any variation in the letters/words on the outside of the various copies of that sigil? Thank you Doctor Sledge for all your great content and scholastic work.
Im looking at the sigil right now, and I know that an angel represents a day when fasting, im wondering if it would be an hour or a mile if i was walking., the burning of the internal fires, are what we are trying to stoke for it to be counted as half an angel. Hmmm... It's a sun,,a day, so i wonder if its the amount of time daily, which doesn't account for intensity of work out. I'm sure of the first two ratios at least just not the units. fasting a whole day is easy to count, it just a turn. Never even, never odd.
maybe its E=MC squared? i need to experiment with units. everything is measured in light it puts out so we can grow a field. would primary source books have more light then secondary sources written by most people? probably. but what about evil peoples books, would they have less fire, or if they go from good to evil would their fire in their causal body chamge the rating of their books? or would stuff that they right from the point they turned evil forward have a lesser fire?
If I spent 70 days performing a ritual, I'm sure I'd finally start seeing things too.
😂
Sensationalism
I have zero doubt in my mind that after all of that preparation, fasting, meditation, ceremony, props, and all around psychological priming that these people would absolutely have extremely vivid dreams/visions.
so if people also see these vivid images during rituals, what would you say for that? without any of these needed things
If people have reoccurring themes in their hallucinations then it is worth analyzing
@@stephanieann9770 reality is a hallucination anyways that senses taper
For me, its just a bowl of ice cream before bed to have dreams with demons n angels. Now that im older its more demons than angels.
This reminds me of the Yom Kipper video where he talks about how the Chief Priest of the Jerusalem Temple had to fast and avoid sleep for an extended period to be pure enough to enter the Holy of Holies and offer a prayer to God who while burning incense.Which I guess made it easier to talk to god
I like how you said magic used to be encouraged, I believe in magic still to this day and the Bible holds accounts of many magical acts taken place by those god had appointed. Thanks for the informative upload!
"clerical necromantic underground". That would make one hell of an urban fantasy.
Or TTRPG Game.
Or a metal band
Clan Lasombra from Vampire: The Masquerade somewhat fits.
Oh my goodness. This just made me think - we should create an RP community completely about the clerical necromantic underground. We can all make characters. 😂
“Your property tax has been cast as a time constrained hex that will drain your electric solvency (debit card) until you obtain the sigil of “Paid in Full”. “
Engaging and excellent content as always Dr. Sledge! Thanks for the shout-out to my edition and translation. Wow - I’m an O.G now? Haha. Note: In my forthcoming 3rd edition of John Dee’s Mysteriorum Libri Quinque I argue that Dee probably also owned Sloane 3854. Also, my edition + translation of Liber Trium Animarum is available in print at a very reasonable price.
You are one of the real OGs, and I appreciate you deeply. Please link your editions as you like! Many thanks for your work!
Might that be short for 'Original Goës'?
Where is the best place to support your work?
I just visited the link for the online notes accompanying your translation of the _Liber Juratus Honorii_ and although I've read very little of the text found the introduction (ending 'whoever copies this sacred text without permission from the editor will be damned') very entertaining. I'll add your works to the ever lengthening list of books that I want to read, if not in this lifetime then in some subsequent one (it's a long list!).
I'm doing initiation work and I'm wondering if my ratios for using the Deo sigil are correct? I used Ibn Arabi, "Openings revealed at MAkkah" and page 487 in "Treatise on Cosmic Fire" by ALice Bailey for figuring out the purification ratios.. A kingdom is 8, the beginning and the end are both Kindeness, so its a week long tABLE. Fasting is one turn of an angel a day, exercise is 1/2 an angel per mile/hour? 1/3 the third i think is reading/studying and fourth is praying. I think. ??? I know I can wake at night and it considered gambling, because the sun might not be there, and i have to wake up before sunrise to keep any of the gambling accumulated for sunlight. What do you think about any of this?
I love how he can present these topics in a funny lighthearted way. Makes it so much better.
@@rockk9753 does it scare you? I congratulated on his good presentation style.
@@rockk9753 I don't believe in stuff like this, I'm just interested in obscure knowledge.
@@rockk9753 but I'm interested, what do you hope to achieve by performing such rituals, if you don't mind me asking.
@@rockk9753 I am quite open minded actually, but you understand especially in esoteric topics one needs to be extremely sceptic as lots of people claim lots of things, which are not verifyable. I've yet to experience anything supernatural, which couldn't be explained through coincidence or randomness. I believe you can probably have real spiritual experiences doing such rituals, but I've yet to see any documentation which proofs, that they also happen outside of ones concious or subconcious mind. Can you elaborate a bit more what exactly you have done? You don't have to answer if this is too personal.
Furthermore why would you want to see demons in the first place? Why wouldn't you rather try to find god or helpful entities, instead of literal evil?
@@rockk9753So why are you still looking into such topics, if you had such bad experiences?
One thing is for sure, trying to actively do wrong upon people poisons your own mind, even if you might have had valid reasons.
Anyways thanks for the information. It's good you found something positive out of this situation and I wish you that you find peace with God.
Hey Doc, I can't afford a T-Shirt but I can buy you a drink, thanks sir, you are a great teacher. love from New Zealand.
Love it when you collaborate with Dr. Puca! I always learn something completely new when I watch her videos and interviews. I was not terribly familiar with the Sworn Book of Honorius and I look forward to learning more about it. Thanks to you both!
I laughed out loud when you mentioned exploring the arcane side "...of treasure."
Hey Nag Hammadi and the Dead Sea Scrolls were buried, they count as treasure.
Same lol
I was chuckling throughout, Justin really gets into the idiosyncrasies of these rituals.
Now if he could only do it in a Shakespearean accent.😂
for me it was "and 72 being...72."
Same here.😊
The opening introduction literally brought me to tears. Thank you deeply and as always for all you do to make these sacred texts more accessible. Blessings Dr Sledge!
Man, that Merkabah/Hechalot mojo is in the DNA of everything!
What I love the most about collaborations between Dr. Sledge and Dr. Pucca is that they're like mirror images of each other. Dr. Sledge has this appearance of being serious and sober, but makes jokes all the time, while Dr. Pucca looks like a run of the mill bubbly friendly goth, but has a very well studied academic.approach to the topics she deals with. It seems like one channel is all serious study and the other all campy fun but in reality both have a lot of both
Thanks! Another interesting and enlightening video on western culture and history that goes untaught in schools.
Thanks!
"Request a priest to do magic with you .... that's how it has to be !" Outstanding !
Thanks!
In a dream? I want my money back Honorius!
I'm fascinated by these bridge-like texts that not only reach out in their own time in many directions but also act as conduits for older traditions, seeing both the corruption and innovation in motion through the ages reveals more than the rituals themselves. The more we can fill in the manner, method, and motivations of the transmission of traditions the cleaner the image we'll be able to produce, so it's good to hear it's become a topic of interest.
Honestly makes sense. After weeks of priming your psyche I have no doubt that these people had very vivid dreams.
What a pleasure: the rare combination of intellect, knowledge, and a magnificent sense of humor , as well as the subtle criticism of zealis religious foolishness
Ah. The 4 books I've only spent 41 years looking for. What an amaculate theologian. ❤
“Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least delay
To trace the backward way.
For when youth passes with its giddy train,
Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,
Pain, pain forever pain;
And none escapes life's coils.
Envy, sedition, strife,
Carnage and war, make up the tale of life.”
― Sophocles
what does "to trace the backward way" mean in this context?
@@webspinner420 to go back to whatever state they came from before they were born
Sophocles is know for his bad moods, hey.
I would just like to say, that having been raised in an...let's say... EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE environment, it came as some shock to me that the "true name" consists of 73 words in total, and that they just shortened it by using the first letter of each of the 73 WORDS to make a name with 73 LETTERS. The stuff I didn't get taught is so freaking interesting.
Thank you for your wonderful help 🙏. My soul thanks you. And, I ❤you for the patience and wisdom from these essential uploads. 93❤😊
You, Sir, are the the treasure . . .
We're kidnapping a priest and shaking God down for his lunch money with this one.
Bout time we got some payback
But we are being pious and clean while doing it, so that counts doesn't it?
Awwwwwww yeah!
🤣 I love it
Just bought the Seal of the Sworn book hoodie and cant wait 💕 had to rewatch this in my excitement/anticipation
Dr. Sledge, you are so funny! My mom and I had some good laughs from this one.
Huzzah, I was quite looking forward to this one. I actually already used some passages from it for some talismanic operations.
Thank you, John Dee!!!
It is a good thing to see the joy and excitement you bring to the study of history. Thanks again - and BTW my life loves my Esoterica shirt!
Valeu!
I await your debut as a director Dr Sledge. Thank you for yet another awesome and amazing episode. Keep up the good work
Rumi Missabu aka James Bartlett of The Cockettes just passed away a week or so ago, and while reading his obituary in The New York Times, I saw that his adopted names were mentioned. He loved Rumi and admitted that was where his first name came from, but the article claimed his friends were clueless about the provenance of Missabu. And so was I, until I saw Missabu listed as one of the aerial spirits of the Moon in a snippet from one of the Sworn Book manuscripts that you included here. Now I must let those Cockettes I’m friends with know the story. Thank you as always for your amazing work, Justin, and may Rumi sail with the Moon forever.
Those drawn lines are so incredibly good that book must have cost so much.
I'm gobsmacked at the calligraphy AND the illumination/diagrams. It's just gorgeous! I'd love to have a copy of it - even printed - with the original calligraphy and illuminations intact. What a treasure THAT would be!
So thankful for all the hard work and dedication and knowledge laid out. This outlet is a beautiful symphony of ancient thoughts and emotions for us to hear and experience. The minds of many before us and the world they envisioned both physically and spiritually. Your mind displays the voices from the past so we can enjoy the vast depth authors scribed. Showcasing the written and not straying to sides …leaving viewers to make that decision. Always great content.
Wow... it's amazing how this never came up back when I was actively in the esoteric community! Thanks for your work as always Justin
Doc your channel never disappoints! Your insight and teachings here are greatly appreciated sir.
The monologue intro almost brought me to tears 🥹
Ah I've been waiting for this one. Thank you Dr. Sledge for this great video!
I feel like I need "Read the book for your own damned self" on a teeshirt!
this channel deserves so many more views
I have been WAITING for this subject to be covered. Thank you and Dra. Puca 🎉
Ocean's 8. "You're evoking aerial spirits? You SOB, I'm in."
This was so good. I so appreciate your hard work and joyful, beautiful arrangement of your discussions. 💕
This is one of your best videos yet
😃 Hi, Dr. Justin! Dr. Angela Puca's video brought me to yours. This collab is superb! 🤩
Thank you for telling us about Liber Juratus Honorii! Man, I think I fell in love with it! It's so thrilling and I also would like to watch some performance of it!
This video is totally fascinating! Glad to be one of Esoterica's treasure subscribers! 😃👋
THIS CHANNEL IS THE BEST.
Absolutely ❤
Love your “dry” sense of humour and thanks again Dr. Sledge X ❤📚❤🎉
Your wisdom hits like a hammer, Dr. sledge.
Angela's channel is wonderful, as is yours. Love both of your channels.
This was the first grimoire I read and a major influence on every aspect of my life! I read this book online when I was only 14 and it gave me new ways of thinking about my ongoing religious education and informed my choices in the art I experienced and resultingly made. I am probably following this channel today (as well as being where I am generally) because I read this book. I am so excited to see you finally cover it! Thank you so much, Justin!
Your doing sacred work friend. Thank you 🙏
This may be my favorite channel.
Thank you, sir, for your precious opus. Big big love.
Best title ever. 5 stars.
I'd love to watch "The Mystical Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly". It could be like an animated Scooby Doo style show
This video is absolutely Rock and ROLL, as your work normally is! Thank you, Dr. Sledge!
I'm very much with the author of the Book of Honorius, at least on the issue of the Inquisition and the church hierarchy that inflicted it upon the world- those psychos were CERTAINLY in league with the forces of darkness, by whichever name you care to label them! I loved your remarks about the fact that Magic has, weirdly, despite all the persecution and demonization it has endured, actually won in the long run... I found that touching and inspiring in a way that surprised me.
Anyway, I wish you all the best as always! May beatific visions happen for all who wish them, says I. --N
As always, thank you so much for the content! I was wondering, have you ever considered doing a video on the Grecco-Roman concept of the Daemon/Tutelary/Genius? Considering the arguable essential component the concept plays in numerous Esoteric systems.
I think most modern practitioners (and even some scholars) tend to associate the idea with the Christian conception of the demonic. A video on its history and later developments into the midevil period and renaissance could be very useful!
Excellent. Your mention of Jewish ascent mysticism came precisely as I was thinking the same thought.
Conjuration of Aereospirits would be a good movie scene for Hellboy III.
Perlman I hope.
"That's called read the book for your own damn self." It must be on a t-shirt or hoodie. You caught me with that one. Almost spit up on my computer. Love your channel and very informative.
The shirt is looking really good. Fascinating content. 🎉🎉
80s Action Magic Montage. I'm all for that!
"John 'you're welcome' Dee" 😂
I love your content. Every video finds me at the right time.
So I’m not any kind of academic anything. I just find this stuff so fascinating. Thank you for sharing this on TH-cam. Very cool channel.
I’m going to change the names of everything and use this stuff in my dnd games
Great video, thank you for this... Now if you'll excuse me I am off to make my magical whistle.
"Read the book for your own damn self" LOL! Your Awesome!
Or better practice it...oh wait ..its too hard to get up at 3am every morning...its true what they say...the weak will give up and never reach the mysteries 😂
oh yeah Moses was doing magic ,, he was in a magic competition .. and won
Good video. Good fan service for the practitioners of today, "winning the day" against the diabolic church.
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Dr. Justin Sledge
The crossroad liminal space where academic brilliance meets slapstick. You go!
Thank you for and sharing your love of Academia. I love your channel. Late in life I know but I just earned a BA but the more I learn the more money I don’t have
"...and treasure." You s.o.b, I'm in!
I will wait (ref: fore due course, to
look upon The Divine - it's seems
enough that if HIS eyes upon the
sparrow 'i know' HE watches ME 🎶
That said, gratitude for
The Doctors expertise
Those oaths of the 70+ magi in the 13th century led directly, centuries later, to the creation of this video and to my ears. So fascinating.
That was certainly myth
Cool, nonetheless.@@TheEsotericaChannel
Absolutely fascinating, as always 👏 👍 👌
Really awesome stuff! This was an incredible relic that seems like it ought to have not made it to us but it has and that's swell.
@18:53 those names “feel” rather “Mayan/Aztec” when I pronounce them interestingly 🧐🤔
Didn't think I'd hear much about the Catholics in this one. One of my favorite books is "The Name of the Rose", and it was interesting to hear the bit about the argument for living in poverty as Christ.
Of course we are all here for that damned treasure that not even the devil can find!
😂😂😂
It’s fun that an early/mid stage of inducing a beatific vision is asking the angels if you should proceed. That gives it a neat escape hatch in that if you don’t actually wind up having the vision, people can shrug and say, “Ehhhhh I guess you just didn’t listen to the angels.“ In any case, whether it’s 40 days or 72 days, this all seems like so much more worry and bother than a nice cup of shroom tea. 😁
Bro really pulled a "no u" on witch hunters. Predicting it didn't turn out well for him.
Superb as always!
I haven't studied this text, but I've heard about it for years...A number of things you mentioned here make me eager to see/hear Dr. Puca's take on it, as I wonder if things like the implied numerology of the text had an influence on Crowley, for example.
Having worked with some asemic operations before, and having a general interest in voces magicae/"barbarous names," it was interesting to me to read through what you reproduced on-screen when referring to those portions of the text. I don't know if it was just my own odd vision (as in: my eyes don't function quite right) or something else, but as I was reading through them with the video paused, things went wonky for a second...and while I am more apt to ascribe this to my own ocular abnormalities, still, one wonders if this deliberate boggling of the senses might be not only the purpose of such practices, but also (when intensified by other practices like sleep deprivation or fasting) the beginnings of whatever altered sensual experiences were understood as the beatific visions instilled by the operation. Or, maybe not.
But if it leads to treasure as an after-effect, hey, why not? ;)
that really elaborate spell you described reminds me a lot about the Angel Communication... thing Jewish practitioners did
The hardest medieval achievement to unlock. "You want me to say -what- during communion?"
This video is a real... treasure. ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°
I look forward to Dr. Puca's video. (I also think I need to watch "Inquisition Manuals - The Rise of Torture & How Magic Became Heresy" and then watch this a second time.)
Good to see you again my soul brother I really love your content no BS just sitting in your office explaining n breaking down knowledge n wisdom most wanna put up AI generated images n trust AI to tell the truth LMFAO 😅 I've seen the truth of AI it is a joke all lies but when a competent HUMAN being gets behind the wheel 🛞🎡🛞 it goes more smoothly n competently AI is counting on the fact that most humans will not do any research to fact check any misleading content they just blindly trust 🤥 AI
my brother 🙏🏿😇♾️🫶🏿 oh and the subtle lisp is the nail 💅🏿 on he head 🗣️ brother keep up the great work 💪🏿🦾💪🏿
It is always a pleasure to tune in to your chanel
I was going to make a joke like I usually do. (Or weirdly fly off the handle sometimes.)
I think Jewish esoteric practices ultimately won in the end for several reasons. But ultimately, those with power at the time exploit others. And ultimately, those are exploited often come back with more cogent points than before.
On a personal note, this channel is helping me understand modern academic Jewish thought. Thank you.
(To relieve your anxiety because this is the internet. Marginalized Polish American. Not one of the bad ones.)
Thank you . Gosh , it's great to hear about Medieval Tic toc . As regards John Dee , who in communing with his Angel through his interpreter , Edward Kelly , who was the only one capable of interpreting the word of this angel .was told by this Angel that the said interpreter should be allowed to sleep with Dees' wife . I'm tired now .
"Read the book for your own damn self" gah damn but I like it when you do it 😂
THANK YOU 4 sharing! ... and treasure. =)
That was wonderful. Thank you.
And treasure
D&D lore, seems to follow the occult classics more and more. You know Treasure is just one more bullet point in this connection.
Hehe... The 80's-montage imagry had me laughing outloud! Sooo many steps...
You are a treasure. And we didn't have to build an altar to conjure you. How awesome is that?
~Shalom Ha-Rav.~ 🙇🏻
I felt an internal unction to ask a question unto the master…if I may be so bold?
First and foremost, your channel, your content, and above all…your psyche/sál/soul are all one of a kind! Honest and forsooth.
It’s has, with all haste and velocity, become mine one and only for all things magical, occult, arcane, esoteric, mystical, etc.
All others do not hold a candle to the supermassive blue star that is Esoterica.
I am looking to know which foundational/rudimentary grimoires/books you might recommend unto someone looking to submerge within the abyssal, watery depths of thaumaturgy/wonder working/miracle working/practical magic? 🤔
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~Sincerely, ~
~ John Joseph Foxall ~
~ Ha Vetr Wærlogi ~
Post script, if you happen to know of any elementary books concerning astrology and alchemy, I would be eternally grateful…
With unction, a self-dubbed acolyte of yours.
Hey, Doc. Great video as always, but I've been wondering. Could you make a video about the "Book of saint Cipryan"? It very interesting as a rehash of many grimoires at the same time that is a proto Faust ( and proto Darth Vader on the redemption before death makes you a saint/force ghost no matter what you did before). It is a very popular/infamous grimoire in spanish and Portuguese speaking countries... and you know... has spells to find treasures.
Maybe, but it's very late for the channel.
I love how finding treasure would be an ongoing tease in some of these videos LOL
If you are intersted in seeing a movie that's using a similar or maybe this ritual, look for a movie called "A Dark Song". The entire movie is them stuck in a house for weeks performing one long ritual with an occult priest and mourning mother who is trying to see her dead son again. I think it captures some of what you talked about here.
Got several videos about that film
@@TheEsotericaChannel I'll have to check them out. I'm somewhat new to the channel. :D
I'd tell you the name of my favorite band, but you've probably never heard of them. They're a death metal/goa trance fusion band called The Clerical Necromantic Underground. The bass drops will knock you dead, then the guitar solos will resurrect you.
Thank you for another great video!
Id really love a video on the tradition of removing shoes in places of worship