Reuchlin and the Wonder-Working Word - The Kabbalistic Reformation of Medieval Magic through יה(ש)וה
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- Like many fields, the theory and practice of Magic underwent radical renovation and transformation during the 15th century Renaissance. Ficino's translations of Hermetic and Platonic texts along with Pico's infusion of Kabbalah into magic would create new vistas in the European world of magic. Reuchlin would not only transmit these ideas across the Alps to inform Agrippa and Dee, but his own works would further push this Kabbalistic-Magical reformation. In this episode - as part of a collaboration with @TheModernHermeticist - I'll be covering his important, but still untranslated, 1492 De Verbo Mirifico (The Wonder-Working Word) where Reuchlin argues that all of magic can be reformed by returning to primaeval words of power. Further, that a new power, miracle-making word יה(ש)וה has the power to transform all of magic, philosophy and magic!
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Recommended Readings:
Reuchlin - De Verbo Mirifico (Latin) - archive.org/de...
Pico - 900 Conclusions (Latin) - archive.org/de...
Zika - Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century - www.jstor.org/...
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We have all heard of these sources but you have opened the curtain for the first time to my knowledge-
Dude I just received my Esoterica t-shirt (or should I say a badly misshapen, way too large, cheap imitation of one) and there ain't nothing esoteric about it. But I won't be returning it cause I don't do that, so consider the $31 and change a donation cause I like what you do.
I love that this guy basically spent a bunch of time working on this deep esoteric philosophy system to basically come out the other end with the fancier equivalent of: GOD = DOG?!?! *Mind becomes blown*
Like damn I wish I could get away with assigning deep religious significance to wordplay! lol I loved this video - wonderful as always!
Commenting on this to boost it in the algorithm. This is an incredible video as always! It's a shame that your Renaissance era videos aren't doing as well they're no less fascinating than anything else you produce.
I willing to bet anything this will be more popular amongst the younger generation after Gen Z
Soo good 👍❤️🔥
Thank you for a scholarly look at Renaissance and reformation of magic. 🙏❤️🌈🌹
I'm so happy to find your channel
It's incredible to hear about this work that so informed Agrippa and Dee, and contemporary Occult practice (much of which he'd probably critisize!) Pity it hasn't been translated - definitely a great project for someone! Of the mature age of 25, of course. Thank you for this!
I am always so amazed how few people know of Agrippa when his compendium is the source material for the vast majority of modern occult "grimoires" as for Dee I think Crowley's interest in Enochian magic has fostered Dee's ongoing visibility, even though the Enochian system is nearly impossible to learn and use what with the extensive reliance on the made up language.
Dr. Sledge, your videos are always well researched and carefully articulated. All that you said about Johann Reuchlin at the end of this video is perfectly transferable to his great nephew, Philip Melanchthon. It seems that Reuchlin was offered the chair of Hebrew at the new Wittenberg University in 1510 but sent Melanchthon to this post instead of himself. Melanchthon would work closely with Martin Luther at Wittenberg and help Luther in countless ways, even leading the Reformation after Luther's death. This work by Reuchlin is all the more remarkable considering Luther's early friendship with several local Rabbis and, sadly, his later Anti-Semitic work. As a Lutheran pastor, I was unaware of Johann Reuchlin but deeply aware of Melanchthon. Thank you for this video!
Yep, these connections run very, very deep.
@@TheEsotericaChannel very deep indeed. Smitten by Witten.
Bravo. Easily my favorite episode of Esoterica. My two favorite channels working together on my favorite subject has me smiling.
Thanks!
🤙 Mahalo for all your efforts. I'm so into your episodes. I become relaxed & yet energized. Not much online does that.
It's wonderful to have this historical information. Thank you for your work!
Dr. Sledge never disappoints: another magnificent video! I had never heard of Reuchlin, even though I had read some reference to De verbo mirifico. Thank you so much for the high level always, dear Doc!
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I honestly couldn't have asked for a better companion piece than this. It gives an excellent general overview and deals with a lot of the connective tissue with early modern and modern occultism where my project deals more with the particular elements of De Arte Cabalistica. There's also my Battle of the Books: The Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Affair video which gives more context: th-cam.com/video/a5XbslL06TU/w-d-xo.html.
Added note: 37:00 De Arte Cabalistica in the French by Francois Secret is quite good. And I imagine there's a huge, huge pile of work done on Reuchlin done in the German world that has not come over to the Anglosphere. There have been quite a few works on Reuchlin come out in English over the past few decades, but unfortunately few of them work 'in the esoterica mines' so to speak. That's definitely the area that is ripe for research, especially if you have the rare Latin+Hebrew+XYZ Modern Languages skill combo.
It's funny because, as you mention, there is a good bit of work on Reuchlin as a Judeo-friendly humanist (a good look in post WWII German scholarship..."remember that one guy that didn't....") but even back in Zika's article he complained how there was so, so little interest in Reuchlin's actual published works precisely because they deal with 'esotericism.' It's remarkable how virtually unchanged that situation is.
Thank you so much, Dr. Sledge. This video pulled together for me all the loose threads of the subject matter into a comprehensible picture. It’s like when someone tells you the name of a song that you couldn’t remember on your own! Love your mind and THANK YOU! 🙏👍🥰
Love the kids yelling in the background 😁
3 year old fell down - bounced back, though
@@TheEsotericaChannel awww!
Dr.Sledge & Dr.Attrell: The *OTHER* Intellectual Dark Web.
But dark like the Botsina deKardinuta
Aselamu alaykum. I hope my question, which unfortunately does not fit this topic, does not bother you. However, your name aroused my curiosity to ask. What role does the enemy of Adam play in your cosmology? I support the Yazidi interpretation.
the GOOD intellectual dark web
@@xandacab4285 why are they “bad”…..
Especially love your Renaissance videos. Gives me hope. Some theologians and intellectual historians are finally allowing for the category of Renaissance Theology as legitimate. It's not just secular humanism, scholasticism, or paganism; there are cooler and stranger combinations. Let's stop skipping the period from Aquinas to the Reformation/Counter-Reformation! Ironically, in the modern age Reuchlin probably received more attention and interest from scholars of Judaism than Catholic theologians (Gersom Scholem, Elliot Wolfson). Interreligious friendship from beyond the grave. Thanks again!
hahahaha i bursted out laughing the moment you mentioned that the esoteric spelling of christ can repel pirates XD
What a wonderful video- thanks so much
Thank you very much for this video, Dr. Sledge! I've learned a lot about phenomena that still occur in modern occultism - a true treasure house of knowledge, as always
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this one, as well as Dan. This is my favorite project yet.
What a mind he had.
My god man your content is amazing but I only wish it didn't fill my recommended up with conspiratorial and anti-medical bullshit.
Yeah, damn those ads
The only downside for this channel lol
Very refreshing course and it's encouraging to know that others carry the torch. Good stuff.
I definitely wish I'd found your channel sooner, but the timing of this is pretty impeccable. I'm just starting my senior thesis on Renaissance/Reformation era magic, and this video has definitely given me some questions/ideas to follow up on. Thank you!
Great job per usual, Dr Sledge! 👏
Awesome! I love the videos you've been making over the Renaissance.
I'm glad, but I wonder why they perform so poorly?
@@TheEsotericaChannel hm, I didn't know they were doing poorly. I for one find them interesting. Gives historical context for later developments. Hopefully others will too, later if not now.
Hoffendlich waere die Annre aa, wann net nau dann schpeeder.
@@TheEsotericaChannel I wager THIS would be the video that shifts that notion of Renaissance as staid, known, established and strictly scholarly and "bookish" versus the ancient mysteries and mysticism in the near east and in Kabbalah. Like engineering vs quantum physics. Whereas learning of Kabbalah amidst Renaissance I think would go long ways to shift that notion. Plus mention Rosicrucians and Bruno and that'll enflame imagination. Maybe specific titles will also help shift impressions. Rather than the forefront topic but the milieu. Am spitballing notions and seeing what sticks. I need more learning.
I absolutely *adored* this subject being covered! This was an awesome video! But quick shout out to your kids shouting in the background. That was adorably funny!!!
Yeah, my 3 year old fell down and acquired two bobos in the background of filming this episode!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Aww, poor little guy!!! Hopefully they weren't down for the count for long!
girl...ish, and bounced back!
Good afternoon everyone
You've certainly shown that all this stuff should be studied in academia. However bizarre it seems to so many of us, it's still human intellectual endeavor that deserves to be properly catalogued and studied. Who knows when we may move farther away from modern "physical reality we can touch is all there is" to a different viewpoint where going back to this stuff could be useful? Modern physics may take us there in the future.
Really remarkable
Thank you for your fine work. 👍
Very interesting episode. I wonder if this is where MacGregor Mathers got his material to write the 5=6 ritual for the golden dawn. The placement of the shin is the great grand key for connection in the grade. Thanks for the great episode Dr Sledge.
I'd put my money on it
@@architeuthis3476 the most interesting part for me when i got 5=6 was how the shin was the key for connection, this was when I realized that the gd system was not a magical system per say but a theurgical system.
@@architeuthis3476 Well this is kind of personal. During my 5=6, when my mentor uncovered the shin on the altar, I started to see different color lights around the vault and they were pulling me in. If that makes any sense.
@@architeuthis3476 well…. There’s a lot I’m missing. It was not the color of the walls that was pulling me. There were orbs and they talked.
I am listening 🌹
Thanks Dr Sledge. This episode bought to mind Crowley's Paris Working. While he & Victor Neuburg were intimately connected, they recited a versicle in Latin requesting Hermes "come bringing the forbidden word". tee hee !
Excellent as always!
Thank you!
great presentation. I wonder if magical words are easier framed as simply magical sounds and not probe into what they actually might mean. These sounds do magical stuff.
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
~Terence McKenna
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Under-appreciated? Boy, I’ll say! I’ve never heard of the guy! Thanks for shedding light in this dark but foundational corner of esoteric thought and history!
"God became man so that man might become God" - St Athanasius
Reuchlin seems to sort of look at the divine grace that flows through the saints and see it as a prerequisite to wonderworking in this day. But the idea of seeking out this grace so that one may attain powers seems problematic, almost transactional.
I can see critics saying, to seek such powers in itself will preclude one from being able to attain grace, as such grace cannot come without complete humility.
The prerequisite of obtaining grace before truly utilizing the Wonderworking Words seems almost unobtainable save for a few, I could see that being frustrating to the casual practitioner in those days, surely they stuck to their magic circles, much less self-work.
Hope didnt misunderstand the video
If you can just stick a shin in there and its majic, what about a maim or aleph? Why just fire?
I love esoterica channel!
He gives a dozen reasons why the shin but mostly it's just Jesus
As a hermetic Qabalist I can offer this: the mother elements are already implied in the Yud, Heh and Vav of the Tetragrammaton, the final heh being corresponded to the element of Earth. Thus the "missing element" is what west calls Spirit or the east Akasha. The Divine 5th element, corresponding to the Spiritual Fire, Shin
@@22Teachings thats interesting. The way I read it, the mother letters coorespond roughly to the sulphur/mercury/salt. Tetragrammaton has a bazillion interpretations,as it should. They say if you number it out far enough, you get the whole torah,possibly shekinah meaning all corporeal existance,if you kept extending the Name forever. Bal Shem Tov said the true pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is just human breathing. Its all poetry,in a way.
@@drphosferrous listening to this video while driving I was opening my mind to the sound of the name. Just breathing. Absolutely love that 🙏
Special way
Great job, thank you for this information!
Renaissance videos underperforming or not, I thought it was fascinating!
NAB'S Wonder Working Word. "Until the Day Breaks and the Shadows Flee Away. Vessel of light. Symbolic Paper Poppy. Wow. Divine and farseeing combination. Attested by Alias - Newton After Blake.
Huh?
@@TheEsotericaChannelMerely endorsing your great show with tried and tested techniques. Dr Sledge.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Great Show . Hint, hint. As in great ????
Dr. Sledge, I am down, signed up. I am a cryptographer and PhD computational linguist. Russian, Spanish, are my foci..., Can read ANCIENT Greek and Latin (with significant help). Working on Hebrew and Aramaic... yeah, not easy. Cam you point me to a corpus that you would like me to analyze?
I remembered seeing that particular spelling before in a diagram by Athanasius Kircher in Barb.or.155 (I had to look that up, I didn't just remember it) in a diagram with various Hebrew spellings of Jesus' name. Which looks a whole lot like a magical symbol. Athanasius Kircher is another person that would be interesting to learn more about.
I am very happy with: "Johannes Reuchlin: Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar: Bd. 2,1: De arte cabalistica libri tres (1517). Die Kabbalistik" It is so beautiful. A little bit expensive, maybe. But that is it worth.
Found a Reuchlin - De Verbo Mirifico-Book from the same editors. Still read. :) Thank you for your inspiration!
I had to get out a dictionary to figure out what you were saying in your first few sentences. Lol
:) yep, this ain't an introductory channel
@@TheEsotericaChannel You should become a battle rapper and roast MC’s with terms like Salvific, Orphic and Obscurantism. You and Matisyahu would be an amazing draw! XD
Haha... I always learn a few new words too.
Please what book will you recommend for me who wants to practice Christian magic
This is an academic channel.
9:29 as a Jew who *loves* ren-fairs, I support the idea of featuring Jewish book burning reenactments in ren-fairs wholeheartedly 🤣
I always wanted to make an outfit with the Jew hat and yellow circle to make it really uncomfortable. "Oh this is the part where you have to blame us for poisoning your wells and burn a bunch of us on evidence derived from torture. " The middle ages - fun for all ages!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Oh yeah, also have reenactors pass out Judensau pamphlets to fair-goers to really immerse folks with the climate of the times
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Hey, isn’t there a translation by Martin Goldman? “On the Art of Kabbalah” it is somewhat old tho, 1993
Yep, but not DVM - the translation of de arte isn't without problems as well
hi. I was wondering if I could ask you for help with something? I found a TH-cam video titled Enochian calls on the channel angelsonholiday and I was wondering if you recognized the reading, if you could tell me where it comes from? I'd really like to reference it. I certainly understand if you don't want to but I don't really know any other expert on Enochian lol.
When you spelled out IHSUH, I was reminded of the Arabic name for Jesus, Isa. A name that is also allegedly in an old secret Buddhist text in some monastery.
(In tellings of this text, a young foreign man joined the monastery and gained miraculous powers in a few years of study then returned home. The man who alleged that this text existed, claimed that that Isa is the young Jesus Christ between 12 and 30!)
Have you seen the video "Joe Rogan - Santa Claus Was a Mushroom!" @ 2:16?
From my understanding, Agrippa was studied by famed swordsmen, Montoya and the Dredd Pirate Roberts.
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It stands to reason we once lived without need for word. In school we are taught the "progress" of written language. Perhaps it was regression. And when word was spoken... what was that first word spoken? What power could it retain?
Weirdly mirroring personal research topic like last week...... Nice. What software are you using for the transcript btw? Cheers
Transcript?
@@TheEsotericaChannel must be an automatic feature then! There's time coded transcripts on videos now. Great feature for cross referencing
@@evans808274mc9la It’s a TH-cam feature-I believe it’s drawn from their auto-generated subtitles. It is very useful!
@@clockworkgnome Oh, interesting - I'm glad I'm articulate enough that I machine can understand me......wait
@@TheEsotericaChannel The algodemons like when you upload your transcripts (since it doubles as extra rich metadata)
Please is magic real or is just a fiction? I have been asking this question but can't get the direct answer.
It is probably fiction
What is your definition of magic?
@@luminous3357 invocation of spirits
@@hamidabdulaziz4904 that would not be any magicians definition of magic
@@luminous3357 all that l mean is that are the spirits real?
Thank you! This is similar to the Hindus Om (aum).
New drag name. Barbara Verba
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Don't forget the great Italian humanist Pico della Mirandola -he was a pioneer among Christian thinkers who became interested in Jewish esoteric thought.
Did I forget him?
@@TheEsotericaChannel Sorry -I haven't watched the video yet -I just read the title.Will watch it later!
Why would you comment on a video you haven't watched?
@@TheEsotericaChannel It's a bit of a personality weakness that I happen to have -I have a pretty broad range of interests and You Tube algorhythms pop up with all these suggestions and it's not humanly possible to give each one their full attention so sometimes I only read the titles and some of the comments but don't watch the full video.I knew about Reuchlin from the course I took a long time ago on Renaissance and Reformation history and immediately in my mind the figure of Pico della Mirandola also cropped up and he flourished many decades before Reuchlin and probably influenced him.It's purely a bad habit that I should strive to correct but it stems from my intense interest in a very broad range of topics.So I presume you talked about Pico later on in the discussion.Pico's home town of Mirandola (he was a prince there or something like that) was badly hit by the earthquake that hit that area about a decade ago and severely damaged important structures associated with that ruling family Pico belonged to.A bit of useless information to add to the topic -that's the way my brain tends to work -largely by association rather than analysis.
Could anyone point to an online version of Reuchlin's book in German or English? The books go for 300+ Euros, and as much as I covet them, we're in a recession.
ZLibrary and LibGen both have Reuchlin material available
@@nyarparablepsis872 I'll check LibGen, ZLib doesn't have this particular book.
Hello Dr. Sledge. You are a highly refined person and I am like dirt around your feet. Can you give some advice to someone like me to evolve out of this hellish state and adopt the pure and human qualities such that you have? Is it possible for someone who has as raised from the blood of beasts, such that I was?
I'm just some guy.
You are a human being! An exemplary one in fact. Please do not cheapen it out of resentment!
15:53 Ha! He almost said crossing the abyss! lol
Is anyone else getting some major neovalentian vibes from this?
The cats timing tho.
12:09 "...most potent..." 🤔
I never, never thought Christianity would sound so cool lol
It seems that Reuchlin was no lover of chaos magick 18:01 and 18:19
I can get behind that :D
If people will pay for the work in those mines, I'd be down to learn some renaissance German. Can't be much worse than Javascript, right?
22:06 💜🙏🏼🤍🕯
Marta sim used the pentagramaton with shin and similar intent. Martín evidence of reincarnation or even achievement of immortality via this system? Lol!
So is Harry Potter a glorification of magic or is it just entertainment
Sledge Heads unite!
Magic OR majick????
Just curios doc...
That isn't an academic distinction
@@TheEsotericaChannel thank you.
Is there an academic distinction in the spelling of kabbalah? I've see a C and a Q used...also aren't there many versions of kabbalah; left hand path AND right hand path ( in academia OR in what is referred to as culture. Example: Hollywood celebs.)
Yep, there is. K - Trad. Jewish, C - Christian, Q - Hermetic/Occult
@@TheEsotericaChannel Thot sow.
Thank u.
Wait, wha, whaat, Dr. Justin Sledge…?
Don’t just write it off on alchemy;
We must hear more about this ambiguous……process….? Or word….?
We must know, senseiiiiiiii.
Oh but I like scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas is great
me too, though more of a scotus man, myself.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Albertus Magnus, the teacher of Aquinas should be mentioned. The only Aristotelian scholastic philosopher which I was ever able to tolerate! Only because the fragments of his work were sold repacked during the Early Modern Age by the entrepreneur publishers known as Beringos Brothers under the firm of an occult grimoire known as _Le_ _Grand_ _Albert,_ which has a history full of scams and tons of mutual envy by the French country illiterate boors, who accused one another for being the owners of such an _Albert._ I'm actually working on the full Polish translation of _Grand_ _and_ _Petit_ _Albert_ in the cofee-table book format as a similar practical joke. Anyway, Thomism generally sucks because of the Counter-Reformation, which seriously harmed the quality of esoteric teachings among the Christian Poles (Who else except Sendivogius and Wronski was the star of the 1st magnitude? I don't count Johannes Faust even though he was an alumnus of Cracow, but his tradition continued in Germany, being disparaged and ridiculed in Poland).
Oh hey peeps, concerning just the 72 names of god: Any good source to study? The shorshei al shemot appears to be sold out..😉😅🤣
The term "non-Jewish Kabbalah" really sounds like an oxymoron to me. I know it existed, but it still sounds weird. It makes me wonder if the Jewish practitioners of Kabballah had some derisive term by which they referred to non-Jewish Kabbalah, (something sort of like the term "shiksa", which I have heard Jewish people use for non-Jewish women that marry Jewish men).
I can imagine trad. Kabbalists look at the DVM at mumbling "נאַרישקייט" also don't forget the male 'shiksa', the 'shegetz'
@@TheEsotericaChannel Maybe כישוף? (Yes, I've read the _Golem_ Gothic novel by Edward Lee, having a copy dedicated by the Author himself, where it is the term for "sorcery heretic from the viewpoint of the Orthodox Kabbalah").
Allahu akbar kabaallah
I'd love to see Dr. Sledge on The Joe Rogan Experience. He'd blow Joe's mind and it would probably go on for three, absolutely captivating hours.
Moses lived amongst Egyptians as one of them therefore he had to look like them
Moses was a myth
Man, this really just makes me want magic to be real. :/
It is lol. They are literally making people sick with words
@@charlesschwab2910 Lmao...what?
That's not even remotely any type of evidence. People get sick from the silliest of shit, but saying "they're making people sick with words" isn't any at all.
The times where this "magic" was most prevalent was a time where general hygiene was still very uncommon, where people lived within farting distance of livestock, and where tooth decay and random sores were common place. Most rationalizations of your sorts fall short due to both underdetermination and hearsay.
@@Youshallbeeatenbyme no I’m saying that they are intentionally causing people to become fearful and paranoid and the increased levels of cortisol leads to illness and decreased immune function.
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Thanks!
Fun fact about barbarous words: these were already used in 3rd millennium BCE incantations written in Sumerian, who were very fond of using strange and foreign words (e.g. Hurrian) in their spells. One such barbarous phrase turned out to be the name of a Hurrian dog-trainer :)
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Tying this all in with the Asclepius (which I'm also working on) was *chef's kiss*
I really appreciated that shade personally
Kaballahistic mic drop 🎤 😁
Listen, if you've ever had to repel a pirate, you know how important that utterance is.
9:27 "Why don't these feature at more Renaissance Festivals?" Lol, that's great, wasn't expecting that biting humor.
Great episode. A small point: When Reuchlin weighs in on (pseudo-)Abano, he is probably referring to the Lucidarium Necromantice, not the later Heptameron. "Roberthus et Bacon" probably refers to the explicitly necromantic text De Nigromancia sive Thesaurus Spirituum attributed to Roger (alternately William) Bacon and Robert the Turk (e.g. Sl. 3885, Ad. 36674, Wellcome 110, Chethams Mun.A.4.59).
A welcomed nuance, many thanks!
Would love to have him on!
Of course it repels pirates! Pirate repelling was of great value back then.
24:00 #itself
I love your videos and your channel as a whole. I'm a middle school drop out and you explain things so perfectly, that even my dumbass can understand. Your work is amazing
If you're watching this channel and understand this lecture you're def not a dumbass. I say that as a 9th grade dropout who's also watching and understanding it😉
Let’s goooooo!
The idea of a ur-religion. How about a video on Montague Summers