Kabbalah and Magic in the Renaissance : Hermetic Prophetic & Magical Kabbalah in Jochanan Alemanno

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[@NadDew]

Hello sir I wonder if you know about Arabic magic book called ( shames Al-ma'earf Al-kubra شمس المعارف الكبرى) I don't know how to translate it to English but it's something like (major knowledge sun or the sun of major knowledge) this book is legendary in our culture I remember I read the first two pages but couldn't understand a thing it was full of some kind of math equations, but I don't know if the book i read was legit or not cause I downloaded it from the internet, the actual book is forbidden to print or sell , I suspect it have something in common with kabbalah cause some of the drawing you have shared here looks familiar to the book i read before. ps sorry my English isn't good. Edit: btw I found a link to an app of the book at Google play play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wShamsalMaarif_10188632 Its in Arabic and there's an image of some pages of the book and there was weird text i didn't understand it even it was written in Arabic it looks like some kind of a spell or something, honestly I was terrified to continue 😅

[@andrewkuiper8831]

Another little known Catholic Kabbalist duo are the American-Italian immigrant brothers Mario and Luigi. Through their presentation of the princess always being in another castle, they performed a Zoharic myth of the exile of the Shekhinah. Sometimes they even descended through fearsome tunnels into the realm of Sitra Achra

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How someone can practice qabbalah, magic and hermetism?

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[@changer1285]

Any interest in doing a video on Moses ben Aaron ha-Kohen of Cracow, who became Johannes Christianus Jacobi? While we're in the conversation about bridging Jewish Kabbalah and Christian ideas?

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I think the rennaissance masters Kabbalahed it all together.....jokes aside, I love this channel!

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[@squidswillbsquids]

Your fantastic video caused me to ask what a developmental based pathway might look like in a contemporary education path. If we are entering a contemporary renaissance,how do we devise a practicum for this historical moment. I was inspired by all the intercultural exchange taking place in the period you describe in the video, yet it seems so much of the material is contained within very specific historical context with its own metaphysics and cultural mythologies which don’t easily translate to these times. I would be so curious to listen to public intellectuals (such as yourself, ‘let’s talk religion’, forest Landry and Evan McMullen and Lawrence Curry-Clark) have public discussion about the framing of an education system for a bro-renaissance.)

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I've thought a lot of about this as well. Maybe at some point we could have a forum. Truth but told, I think medieval people were pretty on point.

[@squidswillbsquids]

@@TheEsotericaChannel That is a fascinating position, from what little I know of medieval period I am inclined to agree. However I also hold that there is something uniquely important to be discovered behind the shadows of these times. Anyway, +1 for a forum of public intellectuals investigating a contemporary illumination-focussed education.

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Can you possibly give me a list of a couple early midieval books you mentioned? I had this video on fast-forward and I totally missed all of those suggestions. 😅 I guess I could go back and slow you down.

[@jred3806]

What about alamenos work on the alphabet between k and p

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[@mido3ontheway]

Wow I did not expect to find Al Ghazali here! Can you tell me which other Muslim texts were mentioned along with the text mentioned? I bet they are going to be Sufi texts.

[@ThePhilosophersPathway]

Why was it considered necessary to study rabbinical commentaries with biblical literature and kabbalistic works when the student could move on to other classical languages besides Hebrew, Greek, and Latin (e.g. Arabic, Coptic, Akkadian, etc.)? Much of the learning method you explained is derived from the medieval scholastic process of mastering the seven liberal arts beginning with grammar and ending with astronomy. I'm not convinced this method began with the Islamic golden age but often reappeared as different variants of older hermetic wisdom traditions outside of formal religions, closely related to math and metaphysics. Personally, I find commentaries unnecessary and a last stage, if a stage at all.

[@ThePhilosophersPathway]

@@realherbalism1017 My original comment lacked clarity. I was trying to say that there is biblical literature outside of Hebrew and rabbinical works (apocryphal, pseudepigraphal, and new testamental works) as well as kabbalistic texts outside of Hebrew and rabbinical works that may not bare the name "kabbalah" but certainly pre-date most Hebrew and rabbinical works. This way, a student can skip over rabbinical commentaries and expand their breadth rather than depth of study immediately. It is logically flawed to claim they would have deeper understandings by virtue of intense study and the typical chosenness narrative not because those two elements don't play a part, they certainly do, but because its an unnecessary limitation on the study of mysticism and esotericism in general. This falls under post hoc ergo propter hoc and non causa pro causa. Otherwise, I agree with your points and see the later parts of your reply as a nice extension to my original comment lacking clarity.

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[@سلمانقتل]

👍 good video

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[@paulshaddix5290]

you mean like a Nostradamus text ...Written up then jumbled...for if they showed to make sense they would be killed..once again..PRoF..well done and more questions than answered..Kaballah is hard ..maybe that is by design...good job.

[@kingpopaul]

Sometimes when you blurr things too much people will see what they want to see. If everyone can 'find' what the seek you'll rope in more people.

[@MariaMartinez-ti6ko]

but if yohanan invented the christian way of studying the Kabbalah that means you still don't know how the Kabbalist learned it. From what I've gathered, you study what is given, and, whatever comes to you, all came in order for your understanding. lol what a circle, kabbalah !

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Sinistrari, cover Sinistrari! De Delictis et Poenis, what doesn't it have? Daemonology; sexuality; an incredibly scarce first ed. (it was banned); author the year prior to publishing; another famed work ascribed to him (dubious); &c. ...

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Every time you say Alemanno, I then have to add... P.

[@changer1285]

Shit, I was supposed to start at 4?

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Dont mess with the Zohar

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*neo-renaissance

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[@jacobm.f.2451]

In my opinion, cherry picking Kabbalah out of Judaism, particularly it’s bastardization by western eso into the Christian and hermetic “Cabala” and “Quabalah” is highly appropriative. The history of western eso is fascinating, but the practices themselves are problematic to say the least. To clarify, this is not a slight to you or your work in the slightest; I am utterly fascinated with your work and your videos are a highlight of my time when they come out.

[@ThePhilosophersPathway]

What do you mean by appropriative? Isn't this assuming kabbalah has only and always been Judaic and originates solely from Judaism?

[@MrAlexanderrangel]

There are multiple traditions or lineages of Kabbalah, and IMO its usage in western esotericism is better labeled as cultural exchange than appropriation. This channel has videos on things like Greek / Roman Egyptian magic, which is highly syncretic. Or the origin of sigils which is similar. Western esotericism is a melting pot of ideas grafted together over centuries. Would you go to southeast asia and tell thai occultists to stop using hinduism and buddhism mixed with their folk practices?

[@jordansheen2571]

Everyone borrows from each other. Some of the most popular Muslim philosophers were obsessed with Plato and Aristotle while getting much wrong about them. Nevertheless, Christians and Jews share a lot of history and literature. I think Alemanno should be applauded for not limiting himself with Christian thought.