The Occult Alchemy - A Lost Alchemical Textbook of Agrippa Has Been FOUND!

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@@TheEsotericaChannel can you do a video on Dr Ammon Hillman, as someone who knows Greek and Hebrew I think you are the perfect person to critique his work.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

@@elyknavillus777 No. His positions are nonsense.

[@thatmckenzie]

As a career chemist, I genuinely appreciate the alchemical content you've presented. Thank you, sir!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

I appreciate that, especially coming from a chemist!

[@thatmckenzie]

The "why don't they..." line is one that constantly got me into trouble in my philosophy classes. Chemists personify molecules and elements constantly. "Hydrogen *wants* to share its electrons..." is a perfectly normal thing for us to say. Philosophy professors get irked by that. 😁

[@thatmckenzie]

If you ever have a chance to piddle around in a lab there at the university, take the "white stone" silver chloride and dissolve it in concentrated ammonia. When you add copper to the solution, you'll get the most beautiful shade of blue and you'll precipitate pure silver. The blue color is actually produced by solvated electrons, so what you're seeing is the closest the human eye can come to experiencing an actual interaction with a subatomic particle. It's an absolutely magical experience.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Groovy

[@RogueBoyScout]

​@@thatmckenzieoh man, thank you for this information. Is it possible to keep its properties and make some sort of jewellery (ring or even just a pendant)

[@fillil7515]

"Why is the last chapter a brief dialog between a necromancer interrogating Satan himself on alchemical lore" has to be the best hook on a subject I've ever heard.

[@CindyBallreich]

I recently read about seismic forces on volcanic quartz causing piezoelectric electrolysis with underground water, creating deposits of gold deep within the earth. If that ain't alchemy, I don't know what is.

[@Bildgesmythe]

I thought that too!

[@flambr]

I will, somehow, incorporate this into my dnd campaign

[@krispalermo8133]

@@flambr Quartz iron, or iron ore with quartz will also yield small amounts of gold flakes found within the quartz. Then you have England lead fields which have 20% silver mixed in, naturally occurring pewter. Now we have west/southern Germany silver mines which .. uranium .. was a waste byproduct later used as .. tint/coloring in glass making for centuries., Other than Madam Eva, mother of uranium lived during the late 1800's. If you refine uranium enough it will start to generate heat and steam off less denser metals. Now go read up on the dangers of boiling down cow urine.

[@RAINYPOTATOpacifictime]

Anton Petrov uploaded on this topic 6 days ago.

[@astraldrmr]

@@CindyBallreich how could one replicate this

Dear Lord, this man is on fire!!!! This is the best approach to Agrippa i ve ever met.

[@NAB9717]

I totally agree

[@raymondobeukes3624]

Right???

[@DemainIronfalcon]

So lucky that the Doc is allowing so many that have no way of getting access otherwise to lectures that give guidance on subjects like this. I was advised to look into Agrippa and his works and life by a mentor of mine who is in her 70s, nothing close was available before unless you had special privilege to know university academics or paid exorbitant amounts in private lessons..

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26:50 "Yeah honey, don't forget to pick up the direct divine intervention at the market on the way home!"

[@justkiddin84]

“Okay!” Slams door. Stops after five steps, “wait, the what?”

[@DemainIronfalcon]

Can't wait to start from Dr Sledges Agrippa lecture at their beginning. Your a light in so many peoples dark Doc, absolute Sledgend.🤙🤘👌❤️🙏💯✌️

[@phillipbernhardt-house6907]

I'm in agrippment with you: I think the corpus has expanded! Move over, "Fourth Book"! ;)

[@NamedMyTaco]

I just watched the first video about Agrippa's 3 books of the Occult the other day. I love Dr. Sledge's presentation of the information and subject matter.

[@honey3762]

WERE TURNING LEAD INTO GOLD WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥

[@Shin3y]

Alchemy is my favorite subject to talk about when it comes to the occult and esoterics, thanks Esoterica!

[@Cesaryeyo]

It feels like Dr Sledge is taking us all along in his hyper fixation with Agrippa and I'm here for it

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

My fixation? This was a democratically elected course topic. Be wary what you wish for - you might just get it.

[@Cesaryeyo]

​@@TheEsotericaChannel I mean, the fact that you're clearly very passionate about all the topics you cover is one of the things that make the material so enjoyable. So if you're implying that you might start talking a lot about things you're even more particularly interested in. That just sounds like threatening us with a good time.

[@mildredmelan]

@@TheEsotericaChannelhaha thank you for giving us what we asked for

[@GreeneyedApe]

This term "hyperfixation" seems to be the latest trendy word to overuse and misuse... (Check out the other topics he's covered during this time, if you missed them!)

[@Cesaryeyo]

@@GreeneyedApe So, do you have an actual comment or are you just doing your best to make sure nobody has any fun?

[@NAB9717]

One of your best gripping Presentations Professor. You held my attention throughout. Awesome!

[@EgorKorman]

this is like my favourite ongoing anime getting a new episode

[@tedhand6237]

Now this is where the rubber meets the road! As much as I appreciate your erudite summaries of the scholarship that's available (and not exactly easy to access) you are really "adding value" when you bring us the untranslated and otherwise extremely esoteric stuff. This will help me with a long neglected project of studying the influence of Agrippa on the English alchemist Thomas Vaughan, who made a proto feminist argument when he designed a sort of "sigil" (if you'll forgive me) combining his and his wife Rebecca's initials to indicate that his alchemical findings were her intellectual property as well

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Dr Justin Sledge! This discovery and investigative rigorous unveiling of Agrippa's treatise on Alchemy is what distinguishes Esoterica in matters that would be overlooked! And the Agrippa series continues to upend my perception of this student of Trithemius (?) and contemporary (?) of Dee and foundational source for the current milieu of magick and esotericism and occultism... and Pico aka Becky always occurs alongside Marsilio Ficino in my algorithmic finds...not to be confused with Giambattista della Porta...I would say fire and brimstone would be the sulfur, so asking Big Red/Ole Horned checks out. And, check this out, Dr Sledge: On rigorous modern physics content creator Anton Petrov's channel, a recent episode on how earthquakes form golden nuggets inside quartz! "There are more secrets in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy..." continues to be relevant and timely!

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So it turns out the real buried treasure was this channel all along.

[@israeltovar3513]

This channel is like a palate cleanser in between Spinoza, and Postclassical Narratology readings. Thanks Dr Sledge

[@PandamaticBreakcore]

Alchemy lore is fascinating for a chemist. I just made some aqua regia yesterday for research purposes, we still even use the old name (we don't use 'aqua fortis' or 'oil of vitriol' though). Learning the scholarly details of the beliefs at the time is always welcome. Cheers!

[@bong4538]

I hope you do a video about the Golems please.

[@w1ntrmute]

I love the little bits of humor strewn throughout the incredibly dense and well-researched topics of discussion. Mr. T got me 😂

[@MercyShaver]

Thank you, Professor Sledge.

[@RampagingChipmunk]

Babe wake up. New Agrippa just dropped.

[@SadieMage]

😂

[@jessiross84]

Omg this is pretty much what I just said to my partner lol

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top tier comment

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[@michaelshelton5488]

"You went full pantheism. Everybody knows, you never go full pantheism."

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

At least not in the 16th century ;)

[@michaelshelton5488]

And yes, I said that in Sgt. Lincoln Osiris's voice

[@3rd_ear]

three days ago Anton Petrov posted a yt video on how earthquakes form gold inside quartz from scientific paper published recently. the rebirth of alchemy :D

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

That's by nature not art, though

[@genghisgalahad8465]

you've got me beat by two hours!

[@genghisgalahad8465]

@@TheEsotericaChannel art imitates life imitates art from helicopters and dragonflies to natural camouflage and evolution in real time with Darwin's Finches...it seems the culmination in alchemy would then be "nucular" physics in emulating on earth starbirth with such power. I mean, art can't exist in a void apart from nature, no? Agrippa's assertions of reality continually frustrate me in what he believes can change and what cannot change! In my limited learning of him, he seems more contradictory than Aristotle...along with his literalism that rivals the assertions by Aristotle on the nature of nature. Is this why Alchemy is reinterpreted nowadays in the spiritual sense? Sure, unlike Kelly, he was no charlatan in that specific milieu. So if I'm recalling accurately, Paracelsus was hermaphrodite?

[@genghisgalahad8465]

​@@TheEsotericaChannel wouldn't that be an exemplary plus for literal alchemists on the prowess of actual physical transmutation? No man-made processes of art and science can ever exist without the examples first in nature and unexpected natural processes. Rather than forgoing inspiration at the very least, wouldn't that lend credibility and legitimacy as to viability of the physical pursuit of transmuting metals into gold and not swap it under fool's gold? Alchemy is a frustrating branch of esotericism when it's not applied in the allegorical symbolic archetypal secret "symbological" sense that tends to actually light the fire of the imagination rather than relegating to the dusty tome section of lost causes and dead-end pursuits "back then." Without the landmines of stepping into mudpies of New Age-y assertions, wouldn't that somehow lend legitimacy to alchemy and esotericism up to when Newton, the premiere physicist, studied Alchemy himself with even more volumes on it than on materialist physics? 🌌 🌞 🔥 🔨 🪨

[@3rd_ear]

@@TheEsotericaChannel surely scientists will repeat that in lab again

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i love the captions you put under images. i sometimes have to look stuff up, which is how i learn. i looked up "immanentize the eschaton" and the wikipedia article had a solid chunk of unexpected political stuff. crazy. thank you for the years of teaching us! peace.

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That one is a double doozy

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@@TheEsotericaChannel and freeze my butt off?? Why would my pants want to raise the dead?

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

Wow, this is cool. I want his letters translated and to read this alchemy text more. I'm writing a book currently that utilizes alchemy as a grounding principle for the structure. Constantly seeking more alchemy (and alchemical!) knowledge. Thank you Dr. Sledge (autocorrect went to "Dr. Sledgehammer").

[@MoonberryJam93]

Agrippa just can't stop taking Ws

[@bowietwombly5951]

As someone with no alchemical knowledge but a modest degree of chemistry learning, I find it incredible how much scientific fact I hear in his descriptions of his findings. Conservation of mass, the relative stability/instability of different elements, innate forces in all materials, etc. I spend my time straddling the worlds of traditional Indigenous wisdom and western science, usually with the task of translating teachings into language scientists will understand and respect, and I got a great sense of familiarity in watching this with regards to an experiment/observation approach to discovering truth that works within a larger spiritual framework rather than divorcing itself from the metaphysical. I'm a great believer in the idea that there are many paths to the same destination when it comes to seeking "The Truth" of the universe, and it's really cool to see that kind of holistic approach originate in the western world.

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Thanks! Im looking forward to listening to this and 9 next week at work! My acetylcholine is tapped from Neuro and Symbolism Christianity, i’ve been hitting their lectures hard while i’m off work this week. Thanks again, I really appreciate you, and people, who put their university level work online without charging for it!

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Love your channel. Thanks for the depth of research.

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A new addition, welcomed as always, Doctor!

[@Nivloc317]

15 questions for the Devil? The Devil is ALSO the 15th card in Tarot. Interesting

[@Ithirahad]

As it turns out, the 'anima mundi' is very much there - it is mostly just electromagnetism, and it is both more and less interesting than imagined.

[@White_Fox_of_the_Mists]

"Never go full pantheism -- they burn you for that."

[@Bildgesmythe]

Why the conversation between a necromancer and the Devil? Why not! What a perfect ending to a lost book on alchemy. Makes me giddy.

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Finally one who speaks truth. Very rare indeed.

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Thanks doc, you done sold me a shirt!

[@Diablo-D3]

Haha, saw you slip Mr T in there. Great man, he understood the power of words and imagery.

[@Superstumpgrinder64]

Now if we can just find his commentaries on Paul!

[@asteroxfoundation]

Love this "fake" quote: "I Pity the Puffers" - Magister T By all the "bling", I guess Mr. T was a successful alchemist. :)

[@blackhossproductions]

The idea of alchemists obfuscating their manuscripts and then attempting to crack each other‘s codes leaves a lingering image of some sort of hermetic Mensa society all trying to work each other’s puzzles and best one another.

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Great content brother

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When I was a believer I was a solomonic ritual magician for 36 years, and I am yet to find a single fault in what you say, so my hat off for you.

[@jochem1006]

What changed your mind?

[@adinocc2042]

Excellent and interesting stuff.

[@minomushi_hitogata]

Love your videos and study guide! Do you have anything regarding Cartomancy in general?

[@Oli-cc6wd]

If you don't mind me asking, do you practice / believe in any of the esoteric / occult? You've done a really good job at being separate and displaying it objectively but i'm just interested to know your response

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Nope

[@Oli-cc6wd]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Most of it doesn't hold up I'm guessing

[@nawm8]

​@@Oli-cc6wd Goes against his faith.

[@Oli-cc6wd]

@@nawm8 Ah right

[@mildredmelan]

I didn’t know in 2024 I would be so immersed in the life of Agrippa, yet I’ve never been so enthusiastic about learning.

[@chucksstuff9331]

Happy birhday, Cornelius!

[@atzmut3884]

I would love to get my hands on this book

[@lilstonerdiva5235]

Great! next could just find my math book? I owe the university $100

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Its behind the bed .its telling me

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I'm happy this channel has the support it does and I never want anyone to feel the need to offer financial support when they honestly can't. This information should be accessible everyone and I'm so thankful that I have the ability to do this work.

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Thank you for doing what you do. I'd like to share a cup of tea with you sometime lol... totally dig the piano intro to your videos. ☕ 🎹

[@Slit518]

That last frame though...

[@Untieabl]

New agrippa dropping before gta 6.

[@johnnewton8017]

😭😭

[@redoktopus3047]

Awesome video! If it's in your area of knowledge, could you please do a video on "De Rerum Natura" in the context of when it hit the scene in 1473.

[@luckpows]

great videos, I enjoy watching them. I wonder if the alchemy that was practiced back in the day consisting of turning metals into gold, just another way of them saying (hey i learned how to make gold plated jewlery).

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[@chonbaquer]

Very cool

[@SebastianJArt]

Cool thanks 🙏

[@davidmckayii752]

My interests lie within the vocal areas of magical incantations; for instance, how the words are formed and what kinds of emotions are contained within the pockets of verbal expression that may have a physiological, or even kinetic effect on the physical world. Like, how the use of the mouth, the breathe that is used along side mental intention, how that may have an actual effect, that seems like magic. 😊

[@johnnewton8017]

Are you familiar with Vincent Bridges?

[@arturhashmi6281]

It is documented that certain keys in music cause similar emotional reactions in people regardless of their culture. I believe that language probably started as singing - representing specific emotions by sound and mimicking the voices of other animals - It has been proposed that the mirror neuron system supports the ability to imitate in humans. (The begining of language started about 200k years ago if speculations are right). We know about neolithic tribes which still use similar ways to communicate, but why certian sylllables became words used today is unknown. It was probably "random cultural evolution" - intuitive not intelectual process, thats why people created so many different languages which are incomprehensible to each-other, but possible to translate (in most cases). What do you think?

[@arturhashmi6281]

But I do not know what do you mean by kinetic effect of words on physical world.

[@guerrillastrange]

HELL YEA DR BROTHER

[@eightiefiv3]

31:32 “never go full full pantheism in the 16th century” lol

[@laurachapple6795]

I was gonna say, a necromancer having a chat with the devil himself about alchemy sounds very normal for this channel.

[@erikmazio1205]

14:06 😋If only Agrippa had the internet, he would have remembered the correct mythical artifact once named the Angelicall Stone..."granting" the ability to manipulate "value" ("creation magic" stuff misinterpreted as the ability to create gold which was very valuable) it’s a bit of a tool in the same class as the Ark of the Covenant which had/has the ability to influence certain... outcomes...

[@DuanTorruellas]

So Henry's been holding out on us hahahaha. Good I'm sure it will be keen. ❤

[@SweetLee-c7h]

Heart of Gold, mental blocks, block of gold... Emotional substance can go through all of that... P.S. Thanks to let me comment.

[@adrianlara5045]

Agrippa said “if you can make gold, then why you broke?”

[@CheerfuEntropy]

...thank you....this clarified several things about elden ring

[@BrazilianAnarchy]

Timely discovery!

[@ChemistTea]

The magic worked, treasure found!

[@GrahamMyers]

Good microphone

[@grim-1369]

Today I learned about what the living water is and how to make the white stone. I am currently unsure if that’s the formula I want to try due to what the “living water” is or began as lol!

[@SCx4]

"I pity the puffers." LOL! Rather specific alchemical shade. 😂

[@pb6996]

Love the shirts..you got in the shop..too bad ..the shipping rate are so ...high, for oversea order

[@juliahenriques210]

The very fact that he had no measurable loss after all those steps is testament to his lab technician prowess, if nothing else.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Gold ain't cheap and these cats were pretty solid experimentalists

[@anachibi]

losing my shit at "Magister T" lmao

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

He's the real adept - where you think all that gold came from?

[@MorpheusMoon]

🖤🖤🖤 yay!

[@kaarlimakela3413]

Did he know about the way quartz crystals have electromagnetic properties that attract gold and does conglomerate into gold nuggets? A new discovery I saw on Anton Petrov's channel, if the mention is kosher, I hope.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

I'm sure he didn't

[@NoHylicsAllowed]

MAKE ALCHEMY GREAT AGAIN

[@nameunavailable3025]

I thought the letters on the thumbnail were supposed to be white. I've been really sick recently. All that in mind I thought my time had come. Lol good video.

[@SweetLee-c7h]

Kind of funny comparing of me sitting here thinking about mental blocks comparing them to blocks of gold, exploring the similarities and differences in my mind...

[@andrewbenge2040]

I was listening in the background, and was snapped back into the video because of Hildegard. My surname comes from Bingen, and she's the only thing aside from icewine, and the mouse tower that's ever talked about. 😂

[@joshuazamarron8338]

I’m curious as to what you think of Philip K Dicks view on Gnosticism and how hermetic alchemist tried to replicate something like the apocryphon of John and with Dees Heiroglyphic monad. I didn’t see the connection right away but he was like a modern Jakob Böhme.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

You know, I've never read Philip K Dick.

[@joshuazamarron8338]

@@TheEsotericaChannel there is a gnostic trilogy of valis if you are ever interested and he also has his own exegesis from his own mystical experience

[@shahedhashemi7912]

Papa agrippa dripping

[@corticallarvae]

Bladefolding for necromancers

[@SweetLee-c7h]

I don't think you can over process a pure substance and get more of it. I think the application of the process is just as important as the ingredients, including the type of ingredients you can't see, time, etc .. like they are making angry calligraphy strokes when they need to make gentle calligraphy strokes like that type of thinking...

[@MorpheusMoon]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@forthrighter5388]

People in these comments are saying "good information", and ... yeah, but also: this the funniest set of 16th century "wear out the devil" alchemical memes I've ever seen. How are Munzer & Agrippa not meme stars? Oh yeah, it's esoterica. Anyway it's funny as hell, thank you.

[@daltonmortimer7735]

Honestly it's not surprising that Agrippa winds up somewhere between animism and pantheism when you consider his World Soul concept is to Spinoza's go of Plaegius' divine natualism

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Pelagius?

[@priestessholleywood]

Plague Doctor Transmog!

[@biasparmadi1351]

anyone got new agrippa on their 2024 bingo? i know i dont

[@13squared57]

yo dawg i heard you like agrippa

[@benlap1977]

Hang on... lightning jars? In the early 1500s?!? Wow.

[@ZiGGi03]

Is Thor a point in doing some stenography of that alchemy text book.?

[@sirius7507]

Thor is Thunder

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Brother of Loki!

[@willarmendariz7663]

We can not know and understand the divine until we claim to be like the divine. The like knows the like, and the unlike never knows or agrees with the unlike. Therefore, claiming to be the light and the way and the life and the resurrection is the beggining of God hood. True or false? I'd love opinions.

[@LinyDeeTarot]

You never go full...... pantheism 😂

[@thatmckenzie]

Tropic Thunder Perfect Mind

[@JamesHoovestal]

Pantheism in moderation?