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I love your channel so much: it brings together my siblings and I who were born into an evangelical Christian cult-like church and taught that all other religions, denominations, schools of thought, etc. are evil and wrong. We now love exploring all things religion/occult/magick and sharing in our knowledge. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
@@hayleyxyelyah I was xjw same story… I advise listening to the Lord of Spirits Podcast, they have an understanding of wisdom in other cultures and consummation of union with God in Christ
Even locally in North America, there's a lot of interesting esoteric cultural practices found in pre-historic native tribes, like the burning of the bones to release the "free spirit" or the mass burial rituals to unite different tribes to each other, and the different levels the soul can travel to and from, and animal transformations. If you're interested, look into the Scioto-Hopewell and Adina cultures. With a lot of South American tribes and cultures, it goes more in depth into specific rituals, herbs, and celestial events (alignments), but if you study a lot of these native cultures, from north America to south America, you will start to see similarities in some of their cosmology. Some very good reading on this can be found on "ln Search of the ldeology of the Adena-Hopewell Climax" by Robert L. Hall
This is personally fascinating for me because my colonial ancestor, Governor John Webster, personally knew Winthrop Jr. It is because the Winthrop correspondences were so well kept that several mysteries of my ancestors comings and goings along with his family were preserved. It never occurred to me when researching my CT ancestors to also link it to my interests in the occult. Thank you Dr. Sledge for this video.
Great video, Justin! I think early modern Hermeticism and Puritanism, while seemingly so ideologically opposed, were comparable in their utopian and apocalyptic ambitions because they both came out of the earth-shattering zeitgeist of the transition from feudalism to capitalism - as colonialism created the first truly global market, there was a palpable sense of the old order dying and a new world rising to take its place. Both radical Protestantism and alchemy had individualistic ideas of understanding nature and the divine through direct personal observation rather than (as you said) ancient authorities like Aristotle or ecclesiastic authorities like the Catholic Church (or even the Anglican Church...). Can't wait to hear more about colonial American alchemists in future episodes!
I very nearly commented "Atun-Shei films has some excellent content on Puritanism and it's influence on the emerging modern, Capitalist world" then noticed who posted the comment 😂 I'm pretty blind so it wouldn't be the first time 😂
This one is a special joy, as I sit my home, in CT, looking at the woods out my window, imagining the hidden and fascinating history of this state. Thank you Dr. Sledge.
An early American Alchemy lab tour would be awesome!!! Thank you again for all of your hard work, Dr. Sledge. We appreciate you so much! I hope you got all the R and R you needed on your break!
Most of my ancestors lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony. And settlements in MA called Hampton & Newbury. Mine were admonished in Ipswich for gardening on a Sunday in 1645
Just now I was thinking "wait, did I miss an upload by Esoterica?" only to see that the last video was 3 weeks old. And now 20 minutes ago you uploaded a new video. I guess I'm trying to say that I totally manifested this one so y'all are free to thank me.
The pop culture references are a constantly delightful bonus. I didn't expect to see a still from Natural Born Killers in a video on Yahwe, for instance.
As someone who grew up and still lives in the Colonial New London area, I'm not surprised we are the original hub! I can hear neighbors comment in curiosity as they walk past Winthrop's home, smelling the smells and hearing him mutter in his garden about what he needs from the next incoming ships.
Another fascinating video Dr. Sledge! 👏🤘 I look forward every Friday to another new video from you. I loved your class on Agrippa and I can't wait to watch your next class.
Dr Sledge well done! I have read of John Winthrop and had a suspicion but you confirmed it. I have read much of the Puritans and early works of New England pioneers. I was not aware of Winthrop's scholarship or his collection of books; even John Dee? Wow. Fascinating history. My Compliments sir.
Strangely enough, I have often wondered about this very subject, because I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, and such books figured in some of his best stories. I just had to subscribe.....this is the good stuff.
I was thinking this listening to the earlier part of the video - a video on Colonial alchemy would be interesting. Looking forward to it! I wonder if HP Lovecraft had any of these volumes in his grandfather's library ...
@@TheEsotericaChannel Interesting! I was thinking maybe Charles Ward etc., might have been influenced by Grandpa's library, but it sounds like it was mostly HPL haunting the Brown libraries.
This is such an outstanding channel. Fascinating topics. I just started watching this one but it occurred to me that it would be extremely interesting to hear him speak about the way religious beliefs were apparently being combined to folk magic traditions in Joseph Smith’s own personal creative scriptures and ideas that of course eventually resulted in the modern LDS/mormon church
I'm English and I have learned so much and are so much in control of things I never realised how much I am nle to do. I am strong and full of wisdom and knowledge
I’d love to see more of this. Especially something on the weird and wild occult history of Pennsylvania. I happen to be descended from those weird and wild German Pietists and let me tell you something: I learned a thing or two at my Granny’s knee that I found out real quick weren’t considered kosher amongst the Christians I found myself among in the South when I went to Bible College. My favorite, albeit apocryphal, incident involved the one any only witch trial that William Penn personally presided over. When he asked for evidence against the poor woman they hauled before him, the people offered a witness who testified that she was seen flying around on a broom. Penn said, “I know of no law against that,” and dismissed the case.
Dr Sludge you are really always an inspiration, I studied philosophy for 7 years and I wish you were one of my professors back then. Thank you for always pointing out misogyny and combining as well so many different aspects like biography as well as historical circumstances to your education. esoterica community world wide
Whenever it is that I should cross paths with this Doctor Sledge... Best believe, there is a (tasteful) forehead kiss in store - from me to he. 😊 What a treasure this man is!
It was John Winthrop who put the Kah-botch on the prosecution on Elizabeth Garlick (1657) of East Hampton Long Island for witchcraft. Correct me if I am wrong , but in those time it was not easy to get off on a charge of witchcraft in those times.
I really love these videos. I want a video about you on how you started getting into all this and at what age you started and school you went to and your background!
🧿Odd timing, I was just reading about John Winthrop the Younger of Connecticut the other day. After discussing how American government has been involved in occulted knowledge from our founding fathers. 🧿Timely, & interesting. Thanks! 👍 The argument, was that a Senator was watching the happenings of youtube tarot land. Posited, was here, to shut it down. My response, is that, that is actually not going to happen.🧿
You called out GERSHOM B!!!! One of my Concord guys. Several of his books at Hartford Medical Library with partial receipts for "glass" from England. Got to handle them. Brother Peter, too.
Interesting. My ancestors, Thomas and Mary Barnes arrived in Ct from Barking, England about 1630. By 1662 Mary was accused of being a witch for having opinions and was hanged.
A very helpful video. I've wondered what Poe could have meant by "many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." I always figured there would have been no copies of books of ceremonial magic or even Hermetica available in North America in Poe's lifetime, but evidently not.
It would be fascinating to explore the divergences between Winthrop’s (and Comenius’s) conceptions of transforming nature for “the relief of the man’s estate” and Bacon’s views.
Glad to see that you are back, Dr Sledge. Early American occultism is a much neglected subset of an already ignored subject. If you aren't careful, there will be a library named for you with black suburbans parked just across the street.😊
Great video! To dream of a Paracelsan commune in Connecticut! Any chance we'll get one on Johannes Kelpius and the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness?
My Favorite Occultist is Paul Foster Case. His Book of Tokens, Tarot Meditations is one of the Deepest most beautiful pieces of mystical literature I’ve found so far.
As a person who spent 18 years in Connecticut and discovered Wicca while living in Connecticut finding out one of the early governors of Connecticut was deeply involved in esoteric and occult philosophy is pretty fascinating. But then again Connecticut does have its fair share of colorful characters.
Oh! accidentally erased my comment that was practically an essay! Recreate: Hermes Sledge Justinus Esotericus! John Winthrop the Younger! The imagery of Rosicrucianism reminds me of your introduction of excellent Ritman Library! So the Seal of Dee is tilted at first I thought askew as the top point of the pentagram doesn't align with the outer heptagram until I realized it's likely flipped upside down where both stars align giving it the appearance of LHP leanings! Lost my thoughts. Dissipated not transmuted, for now. There's so much to unpack and threads to ponder that I can't help but be lost in thought as the episode continues and then we're with a new character and discussion! I love the adventuring nature of the episode that challenges my assumption that I love open worlds without railroads and yet here I am adrift without articulating thoughts afterward. I need to pony up and watch early so I'm not lost in thought on Fridays. I can't just up and go oh that was great and leave it at that! It seems the Connecticut Colony and the Alchemical Republic under the governorship of John Winthrop founded the American university higher education framework of centers of learning? What was his motivation for stopping witch-hunting besides the violent state-sanctioned criminality of it all? Does the unbelievable self-pardoning "pardons' of victims today detract from the efforts by John Winthrop? So, for that time period, the definition of pact-making was not because of criminality stemming from purported practice of pact-making but of the accusation of pact-making itself so let's commit sanctioned murder and torture and then later on pardon those victims who might've not actually made pacts while , in reality, it was we who murdered and tortured and falsely accused. It wouldn't be so egregious if it weren't for the modern day "pardonings" of those victims under current law and current understanding of the difference between spirit of the law and letter of the law and of unjust laws. Madness indeed to this day without vindication. Vindication and not the implication of a just accusation that leads to unjust state sanctioned murder without due process through modern lens and sensibility! But we'll pardon you after your death for having murdered you is what they're telling the victims. Will absolutely read Winthrop's America from watching Esoterica! More attainable than Thomas More! The biography or colonial history of John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut Colony, would be a magnificent novel as written by Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke, if you will, with screenplay by Michael Chabon, edited by Neal Stephenson, and produced by Alan Moore.
Wait, I thought George Washington died from asphyxiation from his throat closing because of an infection stemming from his wooden teeth? Spoilers: I am somehow not surprised that the foremost Puritan Governor and Paracelsian medic would be the one to put a stop to Witch Hunts! What an epic revisited episode! Winthrop inspires me! This episode is the one I didn't even know to expect! It's not Esoterica for nothing! Who knew that Alchemy would play such a meaningful role in Colonial America in such a critical moment!
I never get tired of sharing this quote from Walker Percy's The Moviegoer w/r/r the Rosicrucians: "How does he see himself? When he succeeds in seeing himself, it is as a remarkable sort of fellow, a man who keeps himself well-informed in science and politics. This is why I am always uneasy when I talk to him. I hate it when his vision of himself dissolves and he sees himself as neither, neither old retainer nor expert in current events. Then his eyes get muddy and his face runs together behind his mustache. Last Christmas I went looking for him in his rooms over the garage. He wasn’t there but on his bed lay a well-thumbed volume put out by the Rosicrucians called How to Harness Your Secret Powers. The poor bastard."
It stands to reason that at least from the mysteries perspective, that was brought during the 1892 Worlds Fair, where there was an international section of the attraction that featured... dens, prostitutes, tarots and all that "gypsy" stuff as one would have called it back then. They DID object to it but the attraction remained. Before that the 3 sisters and their spirit boards (Ouija) drew a lot of attraction in America as this had been after the Civil War and many were desperate to speak to lost relatives. Obviously there are more specific things, like the "witchhunt" was looking for secularist / masons or rather occultists. They attacked the wives to lure the males out... this is confessed in the book "Scarlet Book of Free Masonry: Containing a Thrilling and Authentic Account of the Imprisonment, Torture, and Martyrdom of Free Masons and Knights Templars, for the Past Six Hundred Years".
Thank you. My peoples are from Pennsylvania from way back...I am a Californian (parents met after WWII. here..). but..me thinks that I was not taught some of these things....thank you.
Very nice and interesting your dissertation about alchemy in North America. I don't know if in New Spain there was an analogous phenomenon. The masonic lodges played an important role in our Independence from the Spanish empire. In freemasonry there is an important set of ideas and symbols which are related with alchemy. Either from freemasonry or from somewhere else It should be interesting to know at least in general terms if there was any kind of esoteric thought (part of the mexican indigenous thought concerning the occult survived) related to alchemy and Kabala ( in New Spain there was an important jewish sefardic community till XVII Century)
Am i having just the most extreme case of déjà vu, or is this a reupload? Because I distinctly remember already having listened to this several months ago
It’s a childish thought, however, I feel it’s beyond important to always ask oneself, “Gold? (With the “Fixed Givin’s”) one has to ask what “Gold” really is.” “Keep on rockin’ in the free world…”
Fascinating stuff as always Dr. Sledge! I wonder how much of this work was known by "The Madman of New England" (aka Lovecraft) himself and if any of this work was an influence on his writings, i.e. diabolism, witchcraft, patrons (whoops, my D&D influence is showing!) of dark forces in colonial New England. Also, curious if you've seen anything about a podcast and RPG called "Old Gods of Appalachia" that gets into similar territory as Lovecraft's view of the back country of NE. Anyway, cheers!
@TheEsotericaChannel Ah drat, well I'm sure I've seen that episode too, and simply forgot. Perhaps not terribly surprising, I'm not sure HPL was really much of a researcher, stronger influences from other writers at the time and his own personal "demons". Thanks for the reply!
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Dr Sledge, could you give us the full name of the paper you mention around 32:12 ?
Any update on the planned episode with MaGee on Hegel and the Hermetic tradition?
I love your channel so much: it brings together my siblings and I who were born into an evangelical Christian cult-like church and taught that all other religions, denominations, schools of thought, etc. are evil and wrong. We now love exploring all things religion/occult/magick and sharing in our knowledge. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
So liberating to be able to think for oneself ! Good for you!
@@hayleyxyelyah I was xjw same story… I advise listening to the Lord of Spirits Podcast, they have an understanding of wisdom in other cultures and consummation of union with God in Christ
@@tzaphkielmelekiyah1518 Hey, always glad to see other xjws! I wonder how many of us are subscribed to Dr. Sledge and the rest of religion-tube?
@@hayleyxyelyah same!
Erie Connecticut? Virginia'$ the devil state..or is it Pennsylvania?
Would love to hear about the occult in South America, or at least in Mexico, which seems to have a super rich esoteric culture.
Peru also have a rich esoteric culture ❤️
Even locally in North America, there's a lot of interesting esoteric cultural practices found in pre-historic native tribes, like the burning of the bones to release the "free spirit" or the mass burial rituals to unite different tribes to each other, and the different levels the soul can travel to and from, and animal transformations. If you're interested, look into the Scioto-Hopewell and Adina cultures. With a lot of South American tribes and cultures, it goes more in depth into specific rituals, herbs, and celestial events (alignments), but if you study a lot of these native cultures, from north America to south America, you will start to see similarities in some of their cosmology. Some very good reading on this can be found on "ln Search of the ldeology of the Adena-Hopewell Climax" by Robert L. Hall
I wonder if the artists, like Remedios Varo, who was interested in alchemy, had any effect on this as well.
Mexico's first post revolutionary (and democratically elected) president was a practicioner of spiritism! we need an episode about this!
@ Well, I’m sure he wasn’t the only one-and Haiti has those on a list 10 feet long, too. Interesting idea!
Would love a video on the alchemical roots of chemistry. Where does chemistry start and alchemy end?
This would make for a great video!
Some where in Europe there was a KLAN of witches poisoning people for political powers.🤔 Wasn't that a star symbol 🤷♂️
More like the 10 plagues of alchemy ⚕️ wasn't Heavy metal poisoning one of the pharaohs favorite?
This is personally fascinating for me because my colonial ancestor, Governor John Webster, personally knew Winthrop Jr. It is because the Winthrop correspondences were so well kept that several mysteries of my ancestors comings and goings along with his family were preserved. It never occurred to me when researching my CT ancestors to also link it to my interests in the occult. Thank you Dr. Sledge for this video.
Great video, Justin! I think early modern Hermeticism and Puritanism, while seemingly so ideologically opposed, were comparable in their utopian and apocalyptic ambitions because they both came out of the earth-shattering zeitgeist of the transition from feudalism to capitalism - as colonialism created the first truly global market, there was a palpable sense of the old order dying and a new world rising to take its place. Both radical Protestantism and alchemy had individualistic ideas of understanding nature and the divine through direct personal observation rather than (as you said) ancient authorities like Aristotle or ecclesiastic authorities like the Catholic Church (or even the Anglican Church...). Can't wait to hear more about colonial American alchemists in future episodes!
Absolutely ditto
To the Pilgrims, wouldn't *_Squanto”_* have been an alchemist, planting fish with crops?
I very nearly commented "Atun-Shei films has some excellent content on Puritanism and it's influence on the emerging modern, Capitalist world" then noticed who posted the comment 😂
I'm pretty blind so it wouldn't be the first time 😂
It would be amazing to hear more about alchemy in early America. Also love the idea of an alchemy lab “tour.” 🕯️⚗️🧪Another great video. Thank you!
I would also love to learn more about alchemy in early America.
glad to have you back Dr. Sledge
Welcome back Dr. Sledge! I’m happy you took time off for yourself and your health and I’m excited to enjoy your content again.
This one is a special joy, as I sit my home, in CT, looking at the woods out my window, imagining the hidden and fascinating history of this state. Thank you Dr. Sledge.
Go read up on Dr. Gershom Bulkeley
An early American Alchemy lab tour would be awesome!!! Thank you again for all of your hard work, Dr. Sledge. We appreciate you so much! I hope you got all the R and R you needed on your break!
Most of my ancestors lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony. And settlements in MA called Hampton & Newbury. Mine were admonished in Ipswich for gardening on a Sunday in 1645
Just now I was thinking "wait, did I miss an upload by Esoterica?" only to see that the last video was 3 weeks old. And now 20 minutes ago you uploaded a new video. I guess I'm trying to say that I totally manifested this one so y'all are free to thank me.
😂
Thank you.
Doctor Sledge took November off of content creating as a well-deserved break. :) Thanks for summoning him back lol.
My daughter and I love watching/listening in to your videos. Thank you for all that you do !
I knew nothing about this! Awesome video
became a fan yesterday, immensely hooked on your work
The pop culture references are a constantly delightful bonus. I didn't expect to see a still from Natural Born Killers in a video on Yahwe, for instance.
Great to have you back. I hope your break was restful and productive in the way of relaxation.
This is wonderful, I've missed you!
Keep up the exceptional work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
I hope you had a great thanksgiving 🦃
As someone who grew up and still lives in the Colonial New London area, I'm not surprised we are the original hub! I can hear neighbors comment in curiosity as they walk past Winthrop's home, smelling the smells and hearing him mutter in his garden about what he needs from the next incoming ships.
New london born and raised here!
@Medichio That's epic! I didn't expect it, but should have guessed I would find another SECT person who also watches this channel
Thanks!
this is so cool to learn since Winthrop the younger is an ancestor of mine
Welcome Back !!! 😊
I didn't know what to expect, so I was brightly pleased with this juicy episode.
This was killer! Really interesting! Thank you, Dr S!😊
Thank you!❤ (from CT)
Another fascinating video Dr. Sledge! 👏🤘 I look forward every Friday to another new video from you. I loved your class on Agrippa and I can't wait to watch your next class.
Great episode Sir. Thank you
Excellent video, great to you have back Doc, hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Dr Sledge well done! I have read of John Winthrop and had a suspicion but you confirmed it. I have read much of the Puritans and early works of New England pioneers. I was not aware of Winthrop's scholarship or his collection of books; even John Dee? Wow. Fascinating history. My Compliments sir.
This has breathed a new life into the history of America for me. Thank you.
🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank you for another great video Dr. S!
Great episode!
Yes sir 👍 this channel is almost like reading a good book
I'm so excited to watch this video right now, actually the best thing I could imagine coming across rn
Fantastic topic and brilliant execution. You manage to be both precise and easy to follow, as always.
Strangely enough, I have often wondered about this very subject, because I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, and such books figured in some of his best stories.
I just had to subscribe.....this is the good stuff.
thank you very much for your work! every single episode is a new door opening (at least one).
You have a good sense of humor Dr.S . Dry but funny.🙂👍
I was thinking this listening to the earlier part of the video - a video on Colonial alchemy would be interesting. Looking forward to it! I wonder if HP Lovecraft had any of these volumes in his grandfather's library ...
He had a copy of Mathers but that's it
@@TheEsotericaChannel Interesting! I was thinking maybe Charles Ward etc., might have been influenced by Grandpa's library, but it sounds like it was mostly HPL haunting the Brown libraries.
Absolutely intrigued as to what a colonial alchemical lab would look like in 17th century. Thank you so much for all you do.
This is such an outstanding channel. Fascinating topics. I just started watching this one but it occurred to me that it would be extremely interesting to hear him speak about the way religious beliefs were apparently being combined to folk magic traditions in Joseph Smith’s own personal creative scriptures and ideas that of course eventually resulted in the modern LDS/mormon church
Thank you very much for sharing this work!
I'm English and I have learned so much and are so much in control of things I never realised how much I am nle to do.
I am strong and full of wisdom and knowledge
Engaging and informative -thank you
Excellent, as always.
An excellent episode, Justin! Thanks very much!
So love you and your work!
I love the Nine Riders reference!
I’d love to see more of this. Especially something on the weird and wild occult history of Pennsylvania. I happen to be descended from those weird and wild German Pietists and let me tell you something: I learned a thing or two at my Granny’s knee that I found out real quick weren’t considered kosher amongst the Christians I found myself among in the South when I went to Bible College.
My favorite, albeit apocryphal, incident involved the one any only witch trial that William Penn personally presided over. When he asked for evidence against the poor woman they hauled before him, the people offered a witness who testified that she was seen flying around on a broom. Penn said, “I know of no law against that,” and dismissed the case.
Dr Sludge you are really always an inspiration, I studied philosophy for 7 years and I wish you were one of my professors back then. Thank you for always pointing out misogyny and combining as well so many different aspects like biography as well as historical circumstances to your education. esoterica community world wide
One of the more fascinating episodes that I have seen, and I've seen a few ...
Whenever it is that I should cross paths with this Doctor Sledge... Best believe, there is a (tasteful) forehead kiss in store - from me to he. 😊 What a treasure this man is!
Yes, please. Thank you!
Excelent Chanel!!
I'm going to join the chorus of "I missed you" comments. I love learning something new every day!
awesome video, awesome content as always! Dr J you're the OG for real :)
I would love to see you and Mitch Horowitz do a joint on American esotericism
It was John Winthrop who put the Kah-botch on the prosecution on Elizabeth Garlick (1657) of East Hampton Long Island for witchcraft. Correct me if I am wrong , but in those time it was not easy to get off on a charge of witchcraft in those times.
I really love these videos. I want a video about you on how you started getting into all this and at what age you started and school you went to and your background!
🧿Odd timing, I was just reading about John Winthrop the Younger of Connecticut the other day. After discussing how American government has been involved in occulted knowledge from our founding fathers. 🧿Timely, & interesting. Thanks! 👍
The argument, was that a Senator was watching the happenings of youtube tarot land. Posited, was here, to shut it down. My response, is that, that is actually not going to happen.🧿
Ain't that the truth.one day a book of codices will be shared with ⚠️ labels of invaders.
Thank you for making connecticut interesting again! Haha. Now I've got stuff to check out next time I'm visiting family and bored out of my mind.
You called out GERSHOM B!!!! One of my Concord guys. Several of his books at Hartford Medical Library with partial receipts for "glass" from England. Got to handle them. Brother Peter, too.
A video on colonial alchemy would be SO amazing! Or any occult practices in early America (that didn’t involve Salem).
Thank you for using "raises the question" instead of the incorrect popular alternative. I now believe in people a little bit more.
Winthrop jr... wow this is all so crazay!! i have been learning about german revolutionaries who were super into hegel.... but, this?! 😮
Interesting. My ancestors, Thomas and Mary Barnes arrived in Ct from Barking, England about 1630. By 1662 Mary was accused of being a witch for having opinions and was hanged.
A very helpful video. I've wondered what Poe could have meant by "many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." I always figured there would have been no copies of books of ceremonial magic or even Hermetica available in North America in Poe's lifetime, but evidently not.
1:01 see this is why i like it, the initiation of thought which just a idea of thought
It would be fascinating to explore the divergences between Winthrop’s (and Comenius’s) conceptions of transforming nature for “the relief of the man’s estate” and Bacon’s views.
Time to come back to Newport amigo, lots to chat about…
I'd love to get back that way. Hope you're well!
Glad to see that you are back, Dr Sledge. Early American occultism is a much neglected subset of an already ignored subject. If you aren't careful, there will be a library named for you with black suburbans parked just across the street.😊
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Great video! To dream of a Paracelsan commune in Connecticut! Any chance we'll get one on Johannes Kelpius and the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness?
Still learning TkS
Thank you.
Townsend collaboration incoming!?
Reminds me a little bit of “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”
Unrelated, but how do we know when you're going live? Since there's no schedule, insta, etc
Patreon!
@alanaalpert4990 i don't have money. i signed the free tier but even regular updates are blocked :/ i hope i get notifications for lives
My Favorite Occultist is Paul Foster Case. His Book of Tokens, Tarot Meditations is one of the Deepest most beautiful pieces of mystical literature I’ve found so far.
I Love Dion Fortune and her Jazz too😁
Im related to john Winthrop jr, he founded and was the 1st mayor of my hometown around 1640
As a person who spent 18 years in Connecticut and discovered Wicca while living in Connecticut finding out one of the early governors of Connecticut was deeply involved in esoteric and occult philosophy is pretty fascinating. But then again Connecticut does have its fair share of colorful characters.
Oh! accidentally erased my comment that was practically an essay!
Recreate: Hermes Sledge Justinus Esotericus! John Winthrop the Younger! The imagery of Rosicrucianism reminds me of your introduction of excellent Ritman Library! So the Seal of Dee is tilted at first I thought askew as the top point of the pentagram doesn't align with the outer heptagram until I realized it's likely flipped upside down where both stars align giving it the appearance of LHP leanings!
Lost my thoughts. Dissipated not transmuted, for now. There's so much to unpack and threads to ponder that I can't help but be lost in thought as the episode continues and then we're with a new character and discussion! I love the adventuring nature of the episode that challenges my assumption that I love open worlds without railroads and yet here I am adrift without articulating thoughts afterward. I need to pony up and watch early so I'm not lost in thought on Fridays. I can't just up and go oh that was great and leave it at that!
It seems the Connecticut Colony and the Alchemical Republic under the governorship of John Winthrop founded the American university higher education framework of centers of learning?
What was his motivation for stopping witch-hunting besides the violent state-sanctioned criminality of it all? Does the unbelievable self-pardoning "pardons' of victims today detract from the efforts by John Winthrop? So, for that time period, the definition of pact-making was not because of criminality stemming from purported practice of pact-making but of the accusation of pact-making itself so let's commit sanctioned murder and torture and then later on pardon those victims who might've not actually made pacts while , in reality, it was we who murdered and tortured and falsely accused. It wouldn't be so egregious if it weren't for the modern day "pardonings" of those victims under current law and current understanding of the difference between spirit of the law and letter of the law and of unjust laws. Madness indeed to this day without vindication. Vindication and not the implication of a just accusation that leads to unjust state sanctioned murder without due process through modern lens and sensibility! But we'll pardon you after your death for having murdered you is what they're telling the victims.
Will absolutely read Winthrop's America from watching Esoterica! More attainable than Thomas More! The biography or colonial history of John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut Colony, would be a magnificent novel as written by Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke, if you will, with screenplay by Michael Chabon, edited by Neal Stephenson, and produced by Alan Moore.
Wait, I thought George Washington died from asphyxiation from his throat closing because of an infection stemming from his wooden teeth? Spoilers: I am somehow not surprised that the foremost Puritan Governor and Paracelsian medic would be the one to put a stop to Witch Hunts! What an epic revisited episode! Winthrop inspires me! This episode is the one I didn't even know to expect! It's not Esoterica for nothing! Who knew that Alchemy would play such a meaningful role in Colonial America in such a critical moment!
The people (read: me) need a Paschal Beverly Randolph video essay.
@@DocAdamPhD you are not alone.
Egad, that was fun!
I never get tired of sharing this quote from Walker Percy's The Moviegoer w/r/r the Rosicrucians: "How does he see himself? When he succeeds in seeing himself, it is as a remarkable sort of fellow, a man who keeps himself well-informed in science and politics. This is why I am always uneasy when I talk to him. I hate it when his vision of himself dissolves and he sees himself as neither, neither old retainer nor expert in current events. Then his eyes get muddy and his face runs together behind his mustache. Last Christmas I went looking for him in his rooms over the garage. He wasn’t there but on his bed lay a well-thumbed volume put out by the Rosicrucians called How to Harness Your Secret Powers. The poor bastard."
How bout an episode on the Shakers?
It stands to reason that at least from the mysteries perspective, that was brought during the 1892 Worlds Fair, where there was an international section of the attraction that featured... dens, prostitutes, tarots and all that "gypsy" stuff as one would have called it back then. They DID object to it but the attraction remained. Before that the 3 sisters and their spirit boards (Ouija) drew a lot of attraction in America as this had been after the Civil War and many were desperate to speak to lost relatives. Obviously there are more specific things, like the "witchhunt" was looking for secularist / masons or rather occultists. They attacked the wives to lure the males out... this is confessed in the book "Scarlet Book of Free Masonry: Containing a Thrilling and Authentic Account of the Imprisonment, Torture, and Martyrdom of Free Masons and Knights Templars, for the Past Six Hundred Years".
Thank you. My peoples are from Pennsylvania from way back...I am a Californian (parents met after WWII. here..). but..me thinks that I was not taught some of these things....thank you.
I've always adnired JWjr the 1st & last Renaissance man in America, the Big Thinker, etc and now a Touch of Sulpher? Oh my. Back to the show!
hell yeah brother
Very nice and interesting your dissertation about alchemy in North America. I don't know if in New Spain there was an analogous phenomenon. The masonic lodges played an important role in our Independence from the Spanish empire. In freemasonry there is an important set of ideas and symbols which are related with alchemy. Either from freemasonry or from somewhere else It should be interesting to know at least in general terms if there was any kind of esoteric thought (part of the mexican indigenous thought concerning the occult survived) related to alchemy and Kabala ( in New Spain there was an important jewish sefardic community till XVII Century)
Are you going to do an episode on Edgar Casey?
Am i having just the most extreme case of déjà vu, or is this a reupload? Because I distinctly remember already having listened to this several months ago
Pequod-Melville...made me look...oh!...The Apple Tree Table!...😮
I have a question about the artifacts behind you: what are the three ... looks like cornucopiae which could perhaps nest Russian Doll style?
Wonder what your thoughts are on evocations invocations.
It’s a childish thought, however, I feel it’s beyond important to always ask oneself, “Gold? (With the “Fixed Givin’s”) one has to ask what “Gold” really is.”
“Keep on rockin’ in the free world…”
Fascinating stuff as always Dr. Sledge!
I wonder how much of this work was known by "The Madman of New England" (aka Lovecraft) himself and if any of this work was an influence on his writings, i.e. diabolism, witchcraft, patrons (whoops, my D&D influence is showing!) of dark forces in colonial New England.
Also, curious if you've seen anything about a podcast and RPG called "Old Gods of Appalachia" that gets into similar territory as Lovecraft's view of the back country of NE.
Anyway, cheers!
I did an episode on HP and the occult. The answer? Not much
@TheEsotericaChannel Ah drat, well I'm sure I've seen that episode too, and simply forgot. Perhaps not terribly surprising, I'm not sure HPL was really much of a researcher, stronger influences from other writers at the time and his own personal "demons". Thanks for the reply!
Did John Dee attend the Mass during his later life?