The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 7 of 14 - The Occult Philosophy II

[@kae5717]

Somehow the whole "you might get the wrong guy if you hail the higher powers so you gotta get lots of experience and illumination before you try that" reminds me of my job's anti-phishing training

[@anglerfish4161]

Which only enriches the image of demons hanging around running scams and cons instead of getting a real job. Probably why God evicted them from heaven.

[@some_random_loser]

It's really funny, because the first thing I thought of was like, wow, if this was a videogame, the end-game powers that you're able to do is inaccessible in the early and mid-game when you _need_ the powers, but by the time you're at the end-game, there's really no point. Really brings to mind like 80% of almost Minecraft modpacks honestly 😂

[@phano6385]

Does your workplace send you fake phishing emails too, to "test" you? And passive aggressively call out anyone who hasn't watched this month's training video? I think our IT department is run by one of these bored demons.

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

I haven’t watched the video yet but you do have to be careful that you get “the right guy” which is the reason as soon as I started hearing from these entities two years ago and realized every last one of them is pure evil I stopped praying and refuse to do it until I know what is going on… There’s no way I’m praying or asking for help from anyone at this time.

[@bobhope4949]

I never was into this shit but I got azazel…… it’s weird I can feel him when ever I even think the name

[@Slit518]

I just came back to comment that I listened to the video finally. I enjoy listening to these longer videos while doing yardwork. And today while doing yardwork my hose wasn't working, the water pressure was really low. So I checked around, no kink in the hose, my water line was good, the water in my house was running well, too. Anyways, during the video Professor Sledge mentions there would be a fourth level of enlightenment as he sees it, the Eureka moment. And around that time I was looking at my hose again I noticed the knob you screw on the back of the attachment was loose, so I tightened it, and THAT fixed the water pressure. EUREKA!

[@justkiddin84]

Jung and Agrippa did a high five in whatever afterlife there may be!😂

[@AdelNoakes]

You had a grip pa on it

[@BenedictaXValentina]

Personally, Agrippa in a “nutshell” comes off as a ‘person’, not being able to be “consistent” in MANY areas of his academic career, and personal life, ‘leaping’ between/back & forth, or just on to the ‘next’ intriguing subject, or matter that catches his attention. THIS is what makes him such a complex, but such an interesting personality to study ESOTERICA in my view. Love your channel and always appreciate your content X❤❤❤

[@iceblinkmender]

Dr Sledge, you are a gentleman and a scholar in the truest sense. thank you sir.

[@syyneater]

As someone in the hacking/infosec world, this was the last place I expected you to hear about hacking, but it fit so well!! While I didn’t have to join Patreon to enjoy this series, I am absolutely not regretting it.

[@juliahenriques210]

What's more fascinating? All this wonderful commentary or the fact that Dr Sledge knows about stack overflow?

[@Bildgesmythe]

Thank you Dr Sledge and Patreons for this absolutely wonderful series.

[@thewizardofawes8194]

This course gets more and more interesting with each session! Thank you very, very much, Dr. Sledge, for this true gift you’re giving us! 🙏🏼

[@sproglodyte]

Great series, and refreshing to hear quantum physics referred to in a video about esoterica that is quite accurate and not just an attempt to clothe some vibrational healing product in scientific jargon.

[@adrianinha19]

I don't know if anyone here remembers Doreen Virtue. She was a new age author who based her whole career on channeling angels and elementals up until a few years ago when she got a scare and suddenly realized what she had been channeling, including Jesus, might not have been all that benevolent. She went full on radical Christian after that. I wonder if this was a case of she calling Michael and and having his cousin pick up the phone.

[@DaughterofSulis]

As a pagan, I know of her. Never understood why people fell for her stuff. It was clear to me what she was. I was therefore not surprised to see she had turned. In the 'non fluffy' section of the occult community, she was completely ignored. Give it time - bet you she will turn back. I do not think that there was anything genuinely occult about that scenario. Anne Rice did something similar.

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

Many people in the occult invoke the name of Jesus and other popular figures of the Christian scriptures so it’s not too far of a conversion honestly.

[@gommine]

I had her decks. She certainly piqued my interest in Angels, for which I am grateful. Interestingly, Damien Echols credits her for more or less the same and says a lot of what she said was legit.

[@sharonmalachowski8320]

"MK Ultra couldn't get mind control, but Maybellene certainly has." Great line.

[@Aya_Anderson]

Agrippa series is facinating thank you Dr. Sledge and Patreons. This episode reminds me a book I read in hs called Black Easter by James Bliss. Thank you again for your content as a fellow lover of education you are filling some holes I have issues filling by myself.

[@LegendofMatt]

RIP Agrippa you would have loved Star Trek

[@justkiddin84]

😂 Yep

[@irevelato]

I love how you present information and ask questions. Sir, a new subscription from a fellow seeker of wisdom 🙏

[@marktoth4379]

That's a huge relief! I thought Gabriel had some serious beef with me or something!

[@mikeflannery7219]

Thanks! Been super busy listening to school lectures while working, just started last week! I can’t wait to listen to this and part six next week at work though!

[@starshine596]

I am loving the education! 🙏🏻 Thank you for all your hard work!

[@johnkelli4940]

Oh yeah.. very true

[@room5245]

I had no idea what I got myself into, every sentence makes me think

[@skram1000]

I love this so much. Thankyou for showing off these works in detail. Ita amazing the more i dig into the occult, everything is exactly how I have experienced it. All the truthes an wisdom show themselves again and again, refelcted in every aspect of reality.

[@andrewlevas9258]

A tour de force! Thanks for all of your wonderful works. The thing that ties everything together is co vibration, through the vibration of thought, and the vibration created conceiving symbols and words, each with its own complex frequency pattern. When one speaks or thinks or visualizes/sees a symbol, one is sending out various frequencies of vibration causing a co vibration in everything it comes into contact with.

[@erikmazio1205]

🤔 Interesting, what about wording it as "motion" ? the thing that ties everything together...everything moves, transforms, transfers energy (thermal or kinetic), oscillates, builds momentum or loses it...

[@andrewlevas9258]

@@erikmazio1205 vibration is movement and all movement is an expression of the lifeforce

[@ChemistTea]

Fantastic! What a treat!

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

I am happy I found your channel. I can’t believe that everything you are talking about I have already heard through these “beings” that have been here terrorizing me for two years now. I had no clue any of this even existed but am thankful you did because I can’t read every book on the planet and these highlighted points are helping me get to the bottom of what is going on. All of this is rough. Really really rough. Particularly when everyone thinks your nuts and the religions of the world are useless in helping people like me. Thank you.

[@mildredmelan]

Love these with all of my being thank you James Justin Sledge for all your labors, wish beyond the best for you and yours

[@Ma-gx1ql]

Loving this lecture

[@CodyMWI]

This series is amazing! Thank you. ❤

[@BojoPigeon]

The discussion starting at 33:30 is going to be my new explanation for Particle Man / Triangle Man / Person Man / Universe Man.

[@clayclayton9819]

Just unloaded the car and kicked back in the recliner. The trip from 586 to 601 and back put a pinch on the wallet, but doc I got you Friday. Love the content 👌

[@realitybytes4908]

You are doing such a great job! Wonderful series; thank you. 🙏

[@ErickMartinez-uh9wi]

Thanks for the class Dr. Justin!

[@unmademusic]

Thank you for your work.

[@syntience_music]

This reminds me a lot of Dante's Divina Commedia, the journey from inner earth (hell), up to Purgatory then Angels and finally God. Dante increasingly uses the "ineffabile" technique the more he's close to God until language is not able to describe the experience of God at all. Was Dante a nominalist then? 😅 You actually mentioned Dante was part of the "scholastic" background of Agrippa. Anyway, thanks for these lessons. This is like the ultimate search for meaning, through metaphysical reasoning, all so far away from our everyday mundane world of "utility" we all live in. Thank you!

[@michaelsaxton7966]

James Justin Sledge....I knew my life was about to end..........Coffee came out of my nose. That was a good one.

[@williamcooper8024]

Such a good lesson, I was just thinking about several of these things, for what its worth, one of my partners gave her perspective on the divine and malific names. What she pointed out is that the angels names are an integral part of their being, their signifier, a proclamation of the power and authority bestowed upon them, so summoning Raphael to heal a sick person is actually kinda silly when you could announce his name to manifest THAT PORTION of his authority, which will get his attention but also could basically intimidate an illness, kinda "you could leave peacefully in this tissue and secure a future for your children but if you dont wanna play nice". I imagine an individuals knowledge of the language, name and medical knowledge of the disease would help "modify the roll" if you will. Now as for the malific/demon names, well, they dont have authority like that, she is of the opinion that the names they have now are basically to mock and humiliate them, because being created without free will and predestined for damnation is super cool oh and your face is made of snakes that smell like sulphers rotten cousin:/ old testament gods a jerk and he knows it, which is more than I was expecting, he (El of the mountain specifically) did answer my question though, I wanted to know if a demonized person could be "redeemed" or better, could finally get to choose a path of their own rather than being spiked into the universes deepest flaming outhouse just cause. He said he would grant no blessing or authority, simply permission... Which was, again, more than I thought was likely, its honestly bizarre knowing that I had that conversation and that that is impossible at the same time, my life is like, impossible miracles, then KZbin magic lessons, brunch miracle, k/j and USA pop for a few hours, its a really nice setup aside from the whole untreatable mental illness and utter poverty bits. I kinda hate money actually but it sure would be nice to meet a brain doctors whos job wasnt "extract money and hope from the broken and weary". I basically came up with my own hack version of emotional/spiritual alchemy using... Things way fancier that whatever Pavlov was doing (;-;) I did also learn to meditate, honed my lucid dreaming skills, it works way better than being a revenue stream for someone too important to look at me/acknowledge my humanity. Oh ya:/ the thing I started this mighty tome to say....;-; :/right, I really REALLY dont like the idea of compelling, controlling, enslaving, de-personifying, like, just because its invisible/divine/the delusions made inevitable by a life of trauma and gaslighting, I think its still bad:/ To anyone who is thinking of dealing with spirit of any kind, please try your words, maybe ask some questions, find out if they wanted to hang out anyways, search for some treasure. Like, if you were to actually communicate and contact a demon, what manner of life do you suppose theyve had? Super fun? lotsa friends, free time to pursue spiritual - They are made of thought:/ How much trauma do you have and how much do you suppose a being who is thousands of years old could accumulate? Ugh, crying makes me more powerful tho so UGH. Abuse is never ok but humans just love it in all its myriad forms. try talking, especially listening, if you cant hear them try asking questions and sitting quietly, you can clear your mind but I recommend also listening to your own static, we are also mental beings just stuck in meat so things get ... Meaty I guess. Anyway, lookat at un'. May the blessings of the myriad ways and those who guide them find you when you call, may your judgements be just and please try not to be an asshole, I will of course take that last part to heart cause YEESH this mess here o777

[@helios7170]

Excellent work

[@pikmin4743]

damn angels took our jaaaabs!

[@dantherpghero2885]

So 'Knowing is half the battle', according to Agrippa.

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

Which people don’t even comprehend 1% of these books.

[@adamharper389]

Dr Sledge I love to listen to your videos while I'm doing leatherwork, art work, and creating things for my friends. This series of lectures inspired me to make a talisman the other day to harness some things going on with Pluto in my chart and the healing energy in certain areas of my life. I do use astrology a lot not to forecast my own personality per say, but to see where people who are unaware of the astrological weather, and are not doing doing the necessary work in themselves to grow and heal, are impacted by it... it helps me make sense in my relations and understand how to proceed forward without perhaps taking offense to an attitude or knowing when and where to either let the moment pass or offer a kind word, it's quite helpful in sharpening discernment and intuition... I do adhere to the words of the alchemists of old in the sense that the cosmos are simply a reflection of what we do here and I don't believe that those who make themselves aware of the coming weather will be as impacted by it, it's like knowing when to bring an umbrella for the walk to work kinda thing. Magic has offered lots of useful filters to observe this world through and even recognizing the prophets of the old testament as kinds of "divinely inspired magi or mystics" helped me to honestly fine tune my faith and trust in our abilities being created in the image of God.

[@Slit518]

Professor Justin Sledge doesn't have time to slow down it seems! He releases video after video after video. Are we getting daily content?

[@peterkarargiris4110]

Arthur Schnitzler wrote a one-act play about Paracelsus. Agrippa deserves his own opera or a Netflix series at the very least. In the ancient Egyptian Book of Gates and the Book Of Coming Forth by Day, knowing and using the names of the 'demons' of the underworld is crucial to the survival of the soul (the Ka) in that underworld. Knowing the divine names gives you power. Excellent chapter, as are all the parts of this series so far.

[@BenedictaXValentina]

ESOTERICA the WEIRDEST thing about your channel/content, is that roughly 90% of your slides/ancient illustrations I seem to feel like I’ve ’seen them’ before, or actually “recognise” them, which I find really interesting but quite eerie (just thought I’d let you know). ❤❤❤

[@kaloarepo288]

Agrippa von Nettesheim occurs as a sorcerer in Sergei Prokofiev's opera "The fiery angel" where a couple seek him out in order to gain contact with an angel. The opera, described as "Carmen with occult elements" is in turn based on a novel by Valery Bryusov. Apparently the plot is similar to another Russian Soviet era novel called "The master and Margherita " -said to be the inspiration for the Mick Jagger song "Sympathy for the devil."

[@GilTheDragon]

Wouldnt like the Higher angels get pissed if the fallen go opening their mail? ... are saints the emergency hires?

[@darrylviljoen6227]

Eh, why not, they are just lazing around heaven after all.

[@GilTheDragon]

@@darrylviljoen6227 precisely! I mean, joking speculation on the celestial bureaucracy aside, it strikes me as odd that Agrippa focuses so much on mankind's elder siblings, & seems less concerned with the calling for aid in the process by those who have walked such a path previously. Like yeah the Angel of the Torah will melt the magus into a bilious puddle, but Saint Mark or Saint Cyprian are probably less hostile?

[@darrylviljoen6227]

​@@GilTheDragondepends on the Saint I guess. Might want to find which Saint is a morning person first.

[@seanbrazell7095]

That's why god invented doorbell cams.

[@anglerfish4161]

@@seanbrazell7095 Coming next: angels rigging their amazon packages to fuck with nosy demons

[@JuliesOrchids]

Thanks!

[@joshuasheets9236]

I think the politically correct term in 2024 is “The Unbodied” the bodyless is offensive

[@tedhand6237]

Was Agrippa following Iamblichus remarks vs Porphyry on how theurgists don't compel the gods?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

It's possible, or just a natural deduction given the the causal cascade

[@tedhand6237]

​​@TheEsotericaChannel so like, following a similar logic to what the divine Jam was schooling Porphyry on.

[@room5245]

For most normies what you see is what you get. Good thing I'm a nerd watching the genious prof Sledge! I can insert some magical thinking into my purely scientific worldview

[@PGAnubis]

Actually, Paimon is currently employed as the cute mascot fairy of the massively successful gacha game, Genshin Impact. So he's even busier than normal. (And they use other demonic names like Morax and Barbatos so it's definitely intended). There's some interesting general gnosticism flavors going on in games from that company as well if you ever need a new vice. Star Rail's the best one =p

[@pollymorphism9401]

Btw the director of CERN is in fact a woman, Fabiola Gianotti)

[@SeerSeekingTruth]

I don’t know about the emphasis on language, shapes etc. if I’m being honest. Can it be a ritualistic procedure to request a certain action from an entity when a human is not tapped in to a standard communicative means? Sure, but these entities telepathically communicate using thought to thought communication along with imagery (visions) so I just don’t know any of that is true in practice. It has not been my experience at all. If a human does said ritual then an entity can know what they are wanting or requesting. It can also be a form of worship where if you do A then the entity will do B because you worshipped them in the manner they wanted but outside of that I don’t think language matters in “magic” at all.

[@dsharpness]

Babel Fish...

[@azothdarktube]

You’re basing this solely on your personal experiences which may or may not be the effects of mental health. It’s one thing to willingly contact an entity and another to convince them of what you’re contacting them for. If they’re properly telepathic and you are communicating with them then there’s no reason they cannot or would not explain why they can or cannot do something. Agrippa however isn’t talking about invoking or evoking a higher power, he discusses elevating yourself and breaking the threshold on your spiritus to merge with the higher powers that be, primarily through language “spell words and Kabbalah” if you will.

[@michaelcarlisle9936]

So like using the angelic name would be the difference between some generic prayer thrown up like saying hey to the CEO of some company on the street versus sending a very well formatted professional email or something?

[@alfrombrum777]

Sigil from consciousness _/ unconscious mind. Use with unconditional Love ❤

[@mikeflannery7219]

I have a question about Patreon- I hadn’t ever been on their website until a minute ago. I’ve always heard of Patreon.. Are these lectures on that site itself? If you’re a Patreon supporter, are you able to watch these without being on KZbin? Two questions evidently..

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Being a patreon supporter gives you the ability to join the lectures live when I'm giving them and do live q&a + digital office hours

[@mikeflannery7219]

And then this is the storage platform afterward. Got it. I’m less upset with YT now than I used to be during the early parts of the pandemic. I was quite upset with them with their censorship. I don’t mind paying for premium anymore, I haven’t seen much censorship from them in a couple years. It seems that when they do such things it’s because of pressure from our government anyway. Thanks for answering my question. I may sign up for Patreon in the future. More likely to just support you occasionally on here. I listen to all of your lectures numerous times on my earbuds while I’m working, they’re great! My favorite is the long series about Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. This one has been very intriguing so far also.

[@warmwestwind]

yayy the grounds of transitive magic

[@thatmckenzie]

So I'm taking this complete non sequitur of a coincidental appearance of my *own* minirants about the food pyramid as 1) correlative evidence of the rightness of my conclusions, and 2) as indirect validation from the anima mundi that I'm where I'm supposed to be, doing what I'm supposed to do. 😂

[@dialecticalmonist3405]

He calls that a "sympathy", yes.

[@arthurmauricio9449]

Please sir, we need translations, in my case to portuguese-BR, anyway, subtitles from the original ENG will help a lot too (the auto-generated can't catch up with multicultural names), that also may spread the knowleged from your work to more people, that, like me, know some english, but not much - a humble kid from Brasil, thx

[@Usedplungerstotheface]

I picked up the piano kind of easily so every time I see one I play November Rain

[@smillstill]

44:00 CorpHerm 11 is very explicit that we can do what God does and basically become equal to God. It does sound pretty hubristic when you first read it, especially if you were brought up on what God thought of such behavior in Eden, the tower of Babel and Lucifer.

[@kingsin6371]

@ 32:44 So in a way reality as is explained here is just some sort of spell where everything down to the letter chosen, it's position in the words, and it's pronunciation set specific conditions for said spell. Like how the angles are named and why they play their roles. If so I wonder if there is another language spoken by god or if this I guess magic spell that he speaks is the only thing he can speak as if that is just the reality if his enlightenment, just absolute ability to control everything.

[@smillstill]

8:00 The Hermetica also teaches that the body is ruled by fate, but not the soul or, at least, the soul as it is freed from entanglement with the body. One can wonder if you get a chicken-egg conundrum in this or it is an incremental process. 39:15 I've heard God has "e" fingers (Euler's natural constant e, 2.71828.....)

[@igor_kossov]

I'm currently finishing up editing my fantasy novel and there's this fictional philosophy in there, about discovering the thinking-language of god through the symbols and patterns he left in the world. It turns out that I accidentally plagiarized Agrippa.

[@michaelnesbit6447]

Didn't they (during the medieval era) believe that the demons were "sub-lunary" spirits, thus not super-celestial? I recall them being viewed as being basically aerial spirits, which would be why they are attracted to good smells like incense, and repulsed by bad smells. Or something like that. 🤔

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Daemones, yes. But not fallen angels. Both kinds lived up there though.

[@mikeredd8833]

Man frequently I'm like yeah I've played d&d. I get it

[@damienwayne__]

Ps. "May you be covered in the dust of your Rabbi"

[@damienwayne__]

If I'm remembering the saying correctly ❤

[@acykablyatley]

i love the based and hackerpilled god

[@EclecticEngineer604]

❤️🙏🏼

[@alliezweihander]

the idea that demons are kinda like cosmic bums with infinite free time to mess with people really resonates. they're like internet trolls, lol

[@erikmazio1205]

2:44 Go team humans! ✊What's wrong with geocentrism if we can eat the sun with a Dyson sphere?? XD

[@erikmazio1205]

11:03 😋 sounds like colorful language of the times...imagination lends a voice to the voiceless... prolly "spirits" or complexities with particular momentum would be a better metaphor these days if we have to verbalize..

[@BloodWolfXZ]

Paimon's currently busy with Genshin Impact.

[@laurachapple6795]

Maybe the reason Agrippa never seems to have tried this stuff is because he thought he didn't have the daemon for it.

[@organizedchaos7606]

🤘🤘

[@Caseyuptobat]

If you think about it, both language and speech are just applied mathematics

[@JamesHoovestal]

Thank you for relating Archimedes to terrestrial illumination. It is interesting that every time the eureka story comes up in conversation, it stops where you did. It took me years to realize that the point was the eureka moment and not whether the goldsmith had baptized the crown in copper.

[@disnagburnazog9552]

we kind of can make worlds, if you count videogames

[@Rallykat]

I am truly a goof, I got mentally side tracked by Rapha/el/; Kal-/el/, Kara Zor-/el/. House of El Super Celestials...

[@Rallykat]

Ok I'm still a goof but I guess קול-אל is considered by some to be quite intentional, so I was a goof to forget that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, like many pivotal comic book icons, were Jewish.

[@edwardgurney1694]

If the more ontologically primitive a language is the closer it is to God's own language, wouldn't a more 'powerful' language be something like Egyptian or Cuneiform?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Cuneiform isn't a language and Egyptian was also of great renaissance interest

[@damienwayne__]

The Law of One by Ra and LL Research come to mind when listening. I wonder if you've ever been exposed to their content? They also believe in free access to helpful educational materials ❤❤

[@DolphinTillTheEnd]

24:30 the word you're looking for is freelance

[@kingchief4038]

"Your just some Smuck that called the angles and got a Demon" haha not me pal must be that other guy 👀

[@David-yp4fl]

🌿 LOVE FROM MISSISSIPPI USA 🇮🇱💕🇺🇲

[@RampagingChipmunk]

Algorithm comment.

[@albatros777]

Algorithm engagement.

[@phil669]

I’m sure an angel wouldn’t appreciate me trying to manipulate him by taking him away from something important just so he can make me more popular with the ladies.

[@craigdelaney8737]

Thanks!

[@toddtaylor4649]

Thanks!

[@toddtaylor4649]

You looked like you needed a coffee.