The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 11 of 14 - The Mystical Works II

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Never have been so excited for CLASS

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Thank you for continuing this great series.

[@tedhand6237]

Stoked to see you're still going with this! I've been immersed in a commentary on Pico's nine hundo partly inspired by what I'm learning about the influence of Pico on Agrippa through this podcast. You rock. Keep up the Great Work.

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[@mikeflannery7219]

Thanks! I just caught up on the last couple. What a great lecture series!

[@Itchy-eyes]

Oh thank you 🙏 I needed to hear your voice 😌

[@hek8ay]

one of my favourite scholarly lecture series EVER. really fascinating. Dr Sledge, i do hope that you are compiling this material into a book? each lecture gives out so much information, and unless i go back to lecture 1 and start taking notes then i am lost....

[@Jordan-zk2wd]

Modern Christians: "Oh yah, I'm saved. 😏I believe 😏" Agrippa: "Yah but what prestige are you bro?"

[@An_Egregore]

They're normally awesome. But this video is fantastic. I can't wait to see the live stream

[@ChemistTea]

Another excellent episode. Got me interested in Llull's Art

[@yeenbean3318]

RIP Lull. You would've loved TempleOS.

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[@christopherbotelho7415]

Philosophy can be pretty difficult to understand. But the way you break it down really helps me get Agrippa on it.

[@populuxe1]

I've always thought it would be an interesting project for a coder and an esoteric historian to create a working Lullian program

[@TheKrispyfort]

Agree

[@michaelshelton5488]

"Ultimate Christian Sidequest" sounds like an incredible band. 🤘

[@phillipbernhardt-house6907]

"The ultimate Christian side quest": not only a cogent and succinct characterization of this material, but also the tagline for a little-known '00s video game? Maybe not...!?! ;)

[@B.INVNCBL]

Another one to kick the weekend off. Woohoo🎉

[@DemainIronfalcon]

There may not be a reliable translation of Agrippa writings affordable. Going back working the streets at night trickin so I can save for a quality Brill may be my only way.😣 .. Once again Doc you have saved me by producing such an extensive coverage free on this channel, which will provide me an extensive dive into Agrippa until I get my inheritance and purchase a Brill. My soul and I salute you again DJ SLEDGE🙏💯❤️👍🤙🤘🤞👌😂⚒️✌️

[@blackhossproductions]

Interesting that he posits non-Christians can be accepted by God simply by "knowing" nature. Evangelicals ain't gonna like that. 😅

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

He seems to believe that at least prior to the coming of the law and the gospel they could be. Not so sure about after that.

[@thatmckenzie]

Melchizedek got the goods somehow. He knew enough that Abraham honored him. :)

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@@TheEsotericaChannel So I'd be safe if all those darn missionaries weren't knocking on my door and I'd never heard of this Yahweh of theirs? THANKS GUYS. 😫

[@Darisiabgal7573]

@@thatmckenzie. While this is a bit of Harmonization the god is El Elyon, which together or separately represent a high god or the variants of high god of the Canaanites. We know this from the 22 to 23rd century BCE people started using theophorics of El in their names, just as Isra’el is a theophoric to El. The literature strongly points to a temple-less high god, a wilderness god. Thus a Melchizedek in Salem (Shalim is the son of ‘El) is simply a priest-chiefton in a small town who pledges his loyalty to the high place god of the wilderness. Or to break this down in parts, the priests of El place themselves in high places and keep a general eye on the wellbeing of shepherds, travelers and traders and it some mischief is afoot they ask on the officials of the local towns for assistance. That’s the harmonization part, this is the literature part. Did Abraham exist? My opinion is that the story of Abram, a name similar Abaraha in Ebla, may represent a collection of folk tales about colonizers that were later combined. Salem might represent a time when Urushalim was just a small outpost, it might represent a town elsewhere or as some scholars suggest Sodom. IOW some of the stories supported Sodom and some opposed so they created two cities so that they could contrast the behavior of good and bad.

[@NeanderdeOliveira]

Yeah, evangelicals have had a hard time enveloping scripture as a complete system that mirrors nature, and thus “all.” I grew up a pastor’s kid in the Seventh-Day Adventist Protestant denomination. After a decade as an atheist I began researching their founders’ literature. And I was surprised to see how mystically inclined they were, because the congregation is very anti anything mystical. But in the early writings you’ll find quotes like nature being God’s open book wherein you can come to know Him, God’s grace toward pagans, and even how Platonism was one of the most corrupting ideas to enter into Christianity. The early writings made a great deal of the process of sanctification, which I later realized is a kosher term for things like theosis. But I can’t stand the crowd now-days. Too much fearmongering over last day events and what the Pope is up to 😮‍💨

[@MarceloKuroi]

Hey, Cornelius! If you are a closeted buddhist, just say it! The parallelism with buddism is incredible.

[@DemainIronfalcon]

11 of X, is this episode going to be taken down soon.. Who would believe me that it was ever a real episode.. This is some hectic, heavy, HARDCORE ESOTERIC stuff Doc, Sledgendary as always.💯🤘🤙💪❤️👌🙏👍✌️

[@anglerfish4161]

You can just picture Agrippa finishing this text, dropping the Nicene creed and going "awright, ortodoxy achieved, well done me! ...Sure hope no more Dominicans come after me, dear God."

[@winoosbourne344]

HBO needs to do a series on Corneluis life

[@philosophopotamus]

Agrippa's mental model here (up to around 21:00) reminds me a lot of Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism.

[@jaygrizzel4883]

When I'm watching tv, agrippa deeznuts.

[@foo_tube]

ooh! plz do a course on lullian art! sounds interesting!

[@Santafe4115]

You should consider setting up a second channel where someone does voiceovers of your script for relaxation / sleep

[@asteroxfoundation]

Hesitantly looking forward to lecture 12 of X....the "but then" episode in which the train wreck begins for Agrippa

[@juliahenriques210]

It's almost as if he was desperately arguing for Catholicism as an initiatic institution, all the while loathing any abstract non-self-invested theology. Which begs the question: how many degrees of initiation into Catholicism did he himself have? How many would have been available to him as a lay man? Would he know about the esoteric roots of Paulinian christianity? Would any of his Catholic teachers know? How much could even Trithemius know about Merkavah, for example? These "details" seem quite important to how his life and work turned out.

[@RampagingChipmunk]

Maybe I’m not taking this seriously enough, but whenever Hermes Trismegistus is brought up, my brain goes “Yay Hermie Trimmie Gimme!”

[@slomosapien156]

Truly, the M&M of the esoteric trail mix.

[@erikmazio1205]

Who made this drawing? 17:54 Kabbalah system for building complexity seems pretty close to Runes (if u put enough of them together like scaffolding) to..."Upgrade One’s soul" 🙃 u have an interesting way with words

[@edgarjones6824]

11 of X ,how very Douglas Adams of you😀 ps great series x

[@Rev-bb9ej]

Was in a state of misery until I saw this video pop up in my recommendations.

[@l___LILITH___l]

What!!!? I thought the series was complete! I’m happy it’s not!😂😂😂

[@justinsabaj6349]

Don Juan would call it being a man of knowledge 7:49

[@erikagalvangarcia-perez3087]

You keep going back to the computer revealing divine truth analogy. In that case, is "Temple OS" the sucesor of Agripa's teachings?

[@MarceloKuroi]

I'll take "The Skeptical Summer of 26" as a title for an album. Coming soon (2026).

[@chrisa1555]

States best on a previous episode, that perhaps the Dutch mistranslated and transliterated the Corpus Hermeticum from Latin and French instead of Greek, and then "British" Greek sounds Phunny.

[@darkhorseman1834]

He realized magic was too complicated and he could just will it to happen

[@RealDevastatia]

Two channels posted videos about Agrippa within an hour of each other. What are the odds?

[@ArgentavisMagnificens]

what's the other channel?

[@PRAR1966]

🙂

[@TheKrispyfort]

So, we wouldn't find Cornelius Agrippa's profile on Tinder

[@OuterRimPride]

One century god says he likes sacrifices, the next century he doesn’t. One day he’s against slavery, the next day he’s for it, how’s a man supposed to worship?! We need a new scripture smh

[@MR-tf3gq]

Sounds like Agrippa had been cheated on

[@room5245]

Fuck I am lagging behind again

[@benlevinson1949]

Who is the target audience that Agrippa is writing to?

[@mistressofstones]

Me 😊

[@thewizardtuesday]

🦋👁️🦋

[@dsharpness]

Gymnosophists!

[@Darisiabgal7573]

The critique here is the cognitive dissonance of wanting a god to be all powerful and Omnibenevolent when the god is not powerful enough to show his true nature to the world, except through human confession, and not benevolent enough to offer salvation to the world that has not received the “announcement”. We dig back here into platonic philosophy in which you need the divine to be a perfect instance of a form that on real terms demonstrates all these imperfections. In essence it’s a denial of how gods came to be and the non-universality of their origins. Literally the place gods crawl out of the swamps, rivers and earth. These early gods were functionaries in ritual life that became the icons of functioning city-state administration. Salvation was piety and city-state survival and growth often at the expense of war and enslavement as part of boundary maintenance. This is where gods come from. Sky gods appear to link like-minded communities into trading spheres, not so much because they love each other, but because if you live in Sumer, all the things you need to be Bronze Age are 1000 miles away in someone else’s territory, as a result you need to act collectively to increase your trade position (frequently starting with some kind of war or threat of war followed by a negotiated trade/defense treaty). This is the origin of gods of the dynastic period, accumulating power, but not appreciably benevolent except to an elite group of followers (even that is dubious if you study NeoAssyrian history). This is where omnipotence comes from. As we can see this is a problem for universalism in mysticism, since the trend in unification was not to unify all, but to unify some so that others would be conquered. For example ‘El. ‘El was not designed to be a dynastic god; the god was a replacement god for the substrate Canaanite gods of Ebla during the Marian conquest. However El fell out of favor in Akkad and ended up in mountain tabernacles. A prime place to be when the Amarna period collapses. Israelite polytheism galvanized around the vestigial priesthood and survived, but people wanted a king and with kings come dynastic gods. YHWH was not a dynastic god, it was part of a collection of Arabian gods that made inroads in the Levant in the LBAC and expanded north during the early Iron Age. One theory is that YHWH was the god of king Omri, a conquerer king from the south. But mystics can imagine that their god is sufficiently better or well-meaning than their experience otherwise. That somehow their compartmentalized god has tendrils that reach everywhere without actually knowing where everywhere is. This is mystical delusion, common however it is, still delusion. In Jewish religion it’s the anticipation by some that one day the world’s eyes will open and see how great the Jewish law and Jerusalem guidance is. Is that a reality. Is Jerusalem better guided today than in 1922? People always want to imagine themselves on the side of right, even as their side is committing all kinds of wrongs in the world. This delusion is compounded by the addition insertion of a returning Jesus figure who made various Roman capitals his spiritual home base and then split a thousand ways. But we go back to what city-state gods were. Devices for increasing loyalty to the polity that would have to draft a king to expand its sphere of influence through murder, enslavement and land acquisition. And the alternative is to do nothing and be overrun by barbarians and their gods.

[@b.a.davis-howe487]

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