Sir Darius the Clairvoyent

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    “I would really allow myself to order the ranks of philosophers according to the rank of their laughter – right up to those who are capable of golden laughter. And assuming that the gods also practise philosophy, a fact which many conclusions have already driven me to – I don’t doubt that in the process they know how to laugh in a superhuman and new way – and at the expense of all serious things! Gods delight in making fun: even where sacred actions are concerned, it seems they cannot stop laughing.”

    (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil p. 294)
     

    he is the greatest philosophef IMO. Not that ive read many others. He liked buddhism, but ultimateley rejected it for being Life denying instead of Life affirming.

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    4 hours ago, blue eyed snake said:

     

    My  eldest sister has been to the Sami when she was a young woman, in the sixties that was. I was a very small kid at the time. She was gone so long, I missed her, many months but she did not winter with them.

    When she came back she had changed in an intriguing and nice way. She took that change with her through her life which is now nearing the end.

     

    I still have a knife that was gifted to me later when i was big enough for it.

     

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    1 hour ago, Thrice Daily said:

    Oh I’m sorry yes of course, I got you mixed up for a minute. Norway correct? 
     

    Just one question, do you believe in the power of Jesus in anyway, as a teacher a healer or other wise?

     

    I'm curious as to your view on him as a individual , separate to the Jewish root and the church. 
     

    The actual guy and the messages ?

    Norway yes. 
     

    on christ, I am conflicted. I do not think we know anything «on the actual guy.» Forgive my bluntness.

     

    On the other hand, the gospel of Thomas is pure gold from stat to finish.

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  8. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Thrice Daily said:

    @NaturaNaturans,

     

    You seem pretty close to the Aboriginals . It would be awesome if walkabout was a worldwide thing. At least In theory! It would be an interesting practical test…
     

    Wouldn’t fancy my chances in colder climates though 🥶 

     

    Unless I was wearing suitable attire for the occasion.

    Well, If you dont mind me going in to genetics, non-europeans are ill suited for the scandinavian climate. They get ill due to the lack of sunlight and have a lower body temprature.

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    14 minutes ago, Thrice Daily said:

    @NaturaNaturans,

     

    You seem pretty close to the Aboriginals . It would be awesome if walkabout was a worldwide thing. At least In theory! It would be an interesting practical test…
     

    Wouldn’t fancy my chances in colder climates though 🥶 

     

    Unless I was wearing suitable attire for the occasion.

    Me? To the aboriginal Australias? Far from it! @Nungaliis the man for that.

     

    If you refer to the sami, my aunt is one. On our 18th birthday, she gave each of my cousins and me a self made «sami» blanket and knife. It is beautifull: it sybolises how with shelter and a tool/weapon you can survive anything.

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  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, NaturaNaturans said:

    During the volcanic eruption on iceland somewhere in the 5th or 6th century, reffered to as fimbulvintr in norse myth, the sun didnt shine for three whole years. The population of scandinavia plumeted. Guess who came trough the catastrophy mostly in tact? The sami.

     

    edit: Ødegård is a very popular last name in Norway (Like that of Arsenals captain Martin Ødegård 😁). This name has been traced to this very event. It translates to deserted farm.

    Here you have (on of) the description of fimbulvintr (the great winter) If interrested:

     

    https://magebymoonlight.com/voluspa-ragnarok/

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    48 minutes ago, blue eyed snake said:

     

    like the San (the bushmen from the Kalahari)

     

    (and although i know they had beasts of burden and sacrificed them. I am thinking of the Saami too.

    They did sort of domesticate the reindeer, without the reindeer their environment was unfit to live in I think. But they kept following the migration routes and lived as nomads, so they sort of followed the animals in their natural way of living instead of forcing domestication on farms or the like.)

    During the volcanic eruption on iceland somewhere in the 5th or 6th century, reffered to as fimbulvintr in norse myth, the sun didnt shine for three whole years. The population of scandinavia plumeted. Guess who came trough the catastrophy mostly in tact? The sami.

     

    edit: Ødegård is a very popular last name in Norway (Like that of Arsenals captain Martin Ødegård 😁). This name has been traced to this very event. It translates to deserted farm.

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  12. Posted

    12 hours ago, Nungali said:

     

    I know you asked BES this but I am going to jump in and hope I dont land on her toes .

     

    First , any 'old pagan ways '  is a tricky term . let's forget that  for the moment .  people first started learning about this  through necessity , mostly food gathering and medicines - via the 'doctrine of signatures'  qualified by trial and error . That developed as 'civilization' developed . It arose in the major centers of development  and in doctrines and writings of  Zoroastrians, Jews, Greek philosophers  and pre-Greek Egytptians  (and some others ) this got synthesized in the 'Alexandrian Synthesis '   ( they where very serious about this, back then any ship that came into Alexandria would have texts seized, copied in the library and returned - many complained that they got the copies back and not their originals ).

     

    Alexandria declined ,  the library burned more than once .  The tradition ( now 'Hermetics' ) moved to Harran in Syria  ( a VERY interesting place , look it up ) . The we had the rise of Islam , they came to Harran and found a mass of people .... to many to 'put to the sword' and besides, they didnt want to convert .  If they could be accepted , problem solved ... and imagine the jizra ! (tax on being accepted as a non Moslem ). They claimed to be Sabians , showed their Hermetic texts  as 'sacred Book' and claimed Hermes  ( as in 'hermetic ' .... Hermes - Mercury - Thoth -  Tjahuti , going backwards to the Egyptian version)  as their prophet .  To cement that the Islamic view flexed to agree as Mohamed does make reference to unnamed prophets before him . They where adopted into the fold  and it was soon realized they held knowledge of medicine , astronomy , mathematics, etc  and that was adopted. Not long after that Islam culture bloomed into a 'Golden Age ' .  meanwhile the Greeks and Jews where developing their contributions .

     

    The Islamics had some input in tying a lot of it together  and wrote treatises  , many  about the things  you mentioned above . These translated into Europe  via  Neo-Platonists and  others like  Cornelius Agrippa , (see 'Three Books of Occult Philosophy ' )  where a lot of these relationships are listed .

     

    Now that became THE science of the time  and the background behind things like the current then evolving Freemasonic movement . ( That increased again in Victorian times when many did the 'World Tour' and bought back new ideas and philosophies resulting in things like 'Egyptian Freemasonry' and others 'unregulated ' or 'spurious' forms of FM ). In Europe it was blended with the Christian outlook - which was very different to that of today , it was underpinned by neo-Platonism , the 'hermetic current' and the  world view of the time .

     

    Then came various other developments that created the scientific revolution and the world view changed , so what had been tied to the previous one  (  the Neo-Platonic / hermetic current ) got thrown out with the bathwater .  ( See The Origins of Modern Science  by Herbert Butterfield , even if only the first few chapters , it is CRUCIAL in understanding all this , and how we- ' collective modern culture ;'western' -  'fell' from a tripartite understanding to a dualistic one - in the overall mental paradigm ) .  There is a free pdf of it online  .

     

    The came the revival of magick where the 'holistic'  view returned , along with a development of hermetic kabbalah .  Alongside that developments in Freemasonry split off and developed certain traditions that eventually evolved into some of the occult and initiation  schools of the west . Eg. one of the biggest international ones of today is  Ordo Templi Orientis , whose roots come from 'The Rites of Mephas and Mizraim , 'spurious' Egyptian Freemasonry ' .

     

    I am not sure where one would draw the 'pagan' line in all  this ?

     

    And that 'magical technology' was incorporated into the  Mass ; the use of special colors for certain rites, different vestments , incenses (here the incense of the 'God' Jesus is considered tripartite;  the three gifts of the  three wise men  (supposed Magi  / Zoroastrians  ;)  )  .. also 'sacraments' can be seen as religious equivalents to the different stages of initiation , especially  with the basic ones , which are based on birth,  life and death  ( its even the same in the Aboriginal initiation traditions here and other places  ) ; baptism , confirmation, last rites .

     

    So ....  " understandings names, cycles colors, paths… were they not kinda integrated into mystery schools and secret societies over the years are preserved as parts of magical rituals and rites."    Yes, 'kinda' .  and you will find a lot of that in Agrippa .

     

    Things are classified as 'in a similar vibration '  thats how we get the modern idea that a particular astrological sign for a person gives their 'favorite'   gem ... or the one 'best' for them .   Thats why the altar of Venus might be based on a green  color scheme , require a certain incense , a certain oration, etc .   I had to learn a lot of that to pass examinations  (in a mystery school ) .

     

    the modern treatise on it  would be

     

    https://hermetic.com/crowley/777/index

     

    On colour… I heard something about the green, white and orange in the persian (and indian) flag had some esoteric meaning, cant remember tho?

     

    And do you know anything about the colours of my own as well as many other western flags, namley, red, white and blue?

  15. Posted

    28 minutes ago, Thrice Daily said:
    4 minutes ago, blue eyed snake said:

     

    No shit sherlock, so you found out that the most violent tribes were the most aggressive countering the unwanted invasion of christian soldiers and priests. What a surprise, it took em 3 centuries to "convert" my people ( i am from Frisian descent)

     

    also, that lists substantiates my claim that it was fixed policy to convert everybody.

     

     

     

    28 minutes ago, Thrice Daily said:

     

    And then they suggest that their faith is somehow superior, that they saved you from barbarism. Its disgusting

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  19. Posted

    14 hours ago, Nungali said:

    No

    " The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774.  "

     

    and then picked up by the modern 'alternative crew'  in a hodge podge of anything  remotely related ;

     

    including 'Greek underworld ' ( I am sure you can find a podcast or youtube 'proving ' that  ;)  )

     

     

     

     

    So it is not some sort of esoteric metaphor? :(

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  23. Posted

    Just now, liminal_luke said:

    Sorry NaturaNaturans!  In a very abstracted theoretical way I can get behind what you are saying.  But the "Christians" have low-key traumatized me with their bullying my-way-or-the-highway ways.  

    It was a joke my Friend ;)

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