are there supernatural powers that can
predict the future or influence events?
many who practice channeling astrology
and tarot believe there are others have
tried to offer proof among those who
have claimed to have the power of the
occult is Aleister Crowley he believed
that he could focus his mind and Bend
anyone to his will one day in the 1920s
as he walked down a New York Street with
his friend William Seabrook he put his
powers on display Siebert asked for a
demonstration of this so Crowley pointed
to a gentleman who was walking down the
street and said watch this and Crowley
then began to mimic though the walk and
the step of that person and then really
suddenly dropped to a crouch and stood
up again and the person he was mimicking
slipped and fell on the sidewalk and
then got up and looked for a banana peel
read over and couldn't figure it out and
that was Crowley's demonstration of one
of his newfound magical powers the story
is legendary in occult circles held is
proof of a concept called action and a
distance a cultist in general believed
that they can affect things far away
whether they can define them and see
them far away or whether they can
actually influence things far away magic
is both an art and a science certain
things cause certain effects to happen
at the same time they have to be done
with a certain intention and perhaps a
certain flair in order to work was
Crowley a master of 20th century occult
magic as some of claimed his beliefs
were nothing new probably took his lead
from the Egyptians earlier cultists who
believed that spells could heal the sick
and make crops grow some things that
seemed supernatural can often become
accepted fact Sir Isaac Newton believed
that an invisible force called gravity
that held planets in orbit around
son created action at a distance
Newton hesitated to share his
groundbreaking theory of gravity for
fear that it would be branded as magic
science nowadays really is touching
against ideas dealing with where magic
and spirituality and religion um
intersect and they're both ways of
trying to find out about how the world
works the occult means secret or hidden
and it's early masters were regarded as
true magicians
but they were also the first scientists
their discoveries in the occult arts of
astrology and alchemy gave birth to
modern scientific disciplines you go
back to ancient times there was no
science so the magicians and the
alchemists and the proto mathematicians
they were doing science but they were
also doing literature and philosophy and
cosmology and religion and there was no
sorting out of those things since the
birth of what we would call modern
science science and the occult have sort
of separated the paths many still view
the occult with suspicion but modern
science is often working on the edge of
the supernatural
trying to solve mysteries that
confronted the first magicians serious
physicists are contemplating time-travel
serious physicists are contemplating
parallel universes serious physicists
are trying to understand the 11
dimensions of the string theory and when
you get into those realms you start to
look to myth and a sort of magical
thinking and almost surreal thinking as
a way to even talk about those things
where the earlier called masters keepers
of secrets that modern science is only
beginning to rediscover the trail of the
occult begins in Egypt 5,000
just before the rise of egypt's great
pharaohs hieroglyphics or pictographs
were invented Egyptians use them to
document their history and religion and
to practice complex systems of astronomy
astrology and geometry they believe
their powerful knowledge came from the
god Thoth father or to who he was the
Egyptian god of magic and more than just
the god of magic he was the god of
writing of astronomy of mathematics and
science he invented language invented
writing only priests with special
training were allowed access to thoughts
sacred knowledge in hotep builder of the
first pyramid was one of the chosen
Thoth was considered to be the one who
gave us writing and numbers and the arts
of self cultivation through works of
consciousness some people thought he was
a person who was then deified through
his accomplishments other people feel
this has been a mythical entity from the
beginning legends held in a book of
magic written by Thoth contained the
secrets of the gods
book of Thoth was actually considered to
be in the astral plane not a physical
thing but something that you had to
actually travel in consciousness to
arrive at and so this is probably one of
those very old incidences of channeling
where an individual would get into a
special state of mind contact the Thoth
energy wherever it was to be found and
then be tutored by this multilingual
multicollinearity that the teachings
contained therein are pages within the
book of Thoth so all measurement all
words all concepts are part of the book
of Thoth but
has ever been found the god is said to a
barely beneath the Nile and protected
its secrets with a deadly curse modern
archaeologists eventually discovered
that the Babylonians had created much of
the knowledge Egyptians credited to
thought as early as 4000 BC they were
the first to measure planetary movements
they invented the abacus the first
sequential numeric system and some of
the earliest forms of astrology and
astronomy this information spread to
Egypt and helped launch one of history's
greatest cultures like the Egyptians the
Babylonians regarded their knowledge as
divine every temple was an observatory
it was actually an astronomical site for
watching the planets the whole concept
of divining means trying to understand
the will of the gods and in order to
understand the will of the gods you have
to have something to read about them
something that you see they're doing the
Babylonians used one of the occults
oldest arts to understand their world
divination or accessing the supernatural
the movements of the planets through the
heavens used to be considered the
footprints of the gods and goddesses and
when they would catch up with each other
and have interactions or one would go
retrograde and then go forward again
these things were all understood to
affect the world it began in the Stone
Age
shawne's invoke the spirits to ensure
the success of the hunt certain people
who were distinguishable by early man as
having sort of mystical experiences and
these would be the religious
representatives of the clan these people
would have been communicating in in ways
of imagination to kind of talk to the
gods or talk to the spirits or affect
certain things that would happen in
Egypt divination developed into a
sophisticated system of rituals and
ceremonies designed to contact the gods
who ruled the world of course you were
trying to influence things like your
success in business or the crops the
Egyptians used rituals they used
incantations they used the symbols to
convey though all those things the
Pharaoh himself was the head of their
religion so that he was probably the
chief practitioner of both their
religion and their magic much of what is
called ceremonial magic the casting of
spells the use of magic words and
incantations came from the Egyptians
when Phoenician traders spread this
knowledge throughout the Mediterranean
world magic became practical they
codified an alphabet that would line up
the sounds of speech the number cannon
and the zodiacal signs planets and
features in the heavens so that you
could with this alphabet spell sacred
words you could also count and and
figure and calculate and you could also
do astronomy the sacred origins of these
disciplines were gradually forgotten in
1212 BC Ramses the second the last great
Pharaoh
of Egypt died invading armies conquered
the land of the Nile it's a cult secrets
were lost but not forever after the
decline of Egypt's extraordinary culture
another civilization rose Greece in the
sixth century BC it was aided by one of
the most protein minds in history
Pythagoras our alphabet the buildings
that surround us even the music we hear
owes a debt to this brilliant
philosopher in his pursuit of wisdom
Pythagoras travelled broadly searching
for lost occult knowledge he found it in
the mystery school scattered throughout
many different cultures
Pythagoras synthesized the elements of
these teachings into a new discipline
philosophy his foundation numbers he
believed that mathematics and philosophy
and an understanding of divine all went
together we can't say he originated
anything but he condensed and boiled
down the knowledge of the world and then
brought it to a practical application
pythagoras identified numbers is the
most fundamental elements of creation as
we look at science in this day and age
we're finding that the whole world is
filled with these mathematical constants
you've got pi you've got the speed of
light you've got you the force of
gravitation so the idea that numbers
describe the world seems to be the case
in 518 BC Pythagoras opened a school in
the Croton region of southern Italy is
carefully selected disciples were called
mathematically their initiation was
rigorous three introductory years
followed by five years of absolute
silence than five more of training only
then were students ready to learn the
most sacred mysteries of numbers he
wanted to produce philosophers like
himself so you had to be very
circumspect it'd be very self-controlled
to be able to even be in his school
pythagoras turned the numbering system
of the Babylonians into a sacred science
they believed that number was like God
and to me to connect with this was to be
talking to God
and so from that arises a whole lot of
symbolism that later becomes numerology
Kabbalah things like that
Pythagoras discovered that the mystery
schools shared the belief that all of
creation was at one with God he did a
huge amount of explaining sacred
mathematics by showing how the one
splits in' becomes to the two finds a
synthesis and becomes three the three
breaks open and becomes the ten thousand
things and that same story you read in
the eaching you read in other
metaphysical ancient documents because
everybody was trying to understand how
do we get number out of all many credit
pythagoras and his school with the
development of numerology and the
efficient Greek alphabet eventually
adopted by much of Western culture
pythagoras also applied numbers to
decode music which Greeks regarded as
the language of the gods
he invented the mono chord which defined
the numerical ratios of the musical
scale Pythagoras believed he had solved
the mysteries of the universe but there
was also this idea that there was a
music of the spheres that the heavens
itself was playing assertive orchestral
piece the planets themselves stack up
around the Sun at harmonic intervals
white light breaks out into color at
harmonic intervals sound is also
harmonically you know the the harmonic
sequence that comes out of any given
note those nodes of overtones are all
governed by the same mathematics so it
was Pythagoras who articulated harmonic
math to the west ultimately the
exclusivity of the Feitosa school caused
its downfall
in 508 BC the school was burned to the
ground there was a point at which his
schools were attacked he destroyed so
his followers killed pythagoras himself
left and went off into the countryside
and died and no really knows what
happened some people think that he
committed suicide
but it's it's a mystery no it's worth
sure the society was hounded into
extinction
generations of later Greeks built upon
Pythagoras philosophy and Aristotle
turned it into science but then came
Christianity and for the next thousand
years
religion casts a long shadow over
science and the occult
during the first fifteen centuries of
Christianity occult knowledge was driven
underground when the judeo-christian
consolidation of Western spirituality
became the enforced model magic was
really moved way off to the sidelines
and became a dark and forbidden subject
priests were the intermediaries between
people and the divine Christianity also
wielded unparalleled political influence
the church had developed a hierarchy it
had developed the idea that the Pope
took his word from God and then passed
that down to the rest and the church had
also cemented itself with certain
monarchs the church closely guarded its
exclusive access to divine authority
like every other in-crowd group if
everybody can do it then you can't claim
that your guys are you know special for
centuries Western Europe lived largely
under church control in the Middle Ages
magic became a rebellious act
perpetrated almost as an anti-christian
or an anti-authoritarian type of
behavior the church singled out a
cultist
Demming them because they believe that
an individual could have direct access
to God they took the whole concept of a
church hierarchy priest the church
itself as a place of worship and said no
you don't need any of this stuff what
you need is to work on discovering
within yourself that divine spark but in
the 14th century the occult would rise
again ironically the church's holy war
the crusades was in part responsible
monasteries to the east on the border of
the Muslim world and preserved many of
the ancient Greek and occult texts
studying them as curiosities returning
Crusaders brought a number of these
documents back to Europe with them
this learning started to trickle back
and little things were found in
monasteries a bit of Scripture here a
bit of text there and so the rumors were
around that there had been greater
learning in the past this rediscovery
fueled an extraordinary rebirth of
culture well this was the point people
began to realize oh there was wisdom
amongst the ancients you have a new
reverence for Egyptian and Greek and
Roman and Hebraic tradition because
people are looking for really empowering
knowledge and looking to understand the
secrets of the Ancients art and science
swept through Western Europe in the
1400s as it assured in the Renaissance
leading the movement into new ways of
looking at old knowledge was the German
physician Paracelsus born in Germany in
1493 Paracelsus trained in traditional
but also studied alchemy ultimately
forced out of school for challenging the
status quo he embarked on a nomadic life
supporting himself with astrology
readings and his far-flung travels he
sought knowledge from any source he
could find
Paracelsus went around Europe and talked
to barbers talked to witches talked to
midwives talked to you know the village
healer and gathered together from
everywhere what worked and this was his
huge final stance if I use what works he
rejected outworn theories ventured
beyond accepted boundaries his
pioneering experiments with minerals and
chemicals laid the foundation for modern
medicine it was just the beginning of a
scientific revolution the next century
would herald the discovery of an occult
text that went against more than
tradition it was a threat to the power
of the church the Renaissance brought
about a new spirit of learning an
academy sprung up throughout Europe in
the 15th century more Sileo Fujino
founded one of Italy's most progressive
with the support of his patron Cosimo
Medici
Pacino acquired and translated a
collection of documents reputedly
authored by a mysterious Egyptian
magician named Hermes Trismegistus an
emissary from the Orthodox Church
brought a cache of documents and fight
scene Oh found I think it was 12 books
supposedly written by Hermes they
weren't necessarily all written as one
book but they got they were gathered
together once these translations were
made the documents which became known as
the
Hermeticum contained teachings from the
early Christian era that had been lost
for centuries their pedigree appeared to
be impeccable the name of their suppose
an author the mysterious Hermes
Trismegistus was a combination of the
Greek god Hermes
and the Egyptian god Thoth the two
greatest gods of Greek and Egyptian
magic there was occultism in there
there were esoteric doctrines there was
alchemy there was us magic there was
astrology and Pacino in his school
considered these documents to be
extremely old predating Plato in fact
and having come from Egypt scholars
would determine that the man Hermes
Trismegistus never existed what vicino
was translating was a compendium of
Greek lore about how an individual could
cultivate themselves and become
enlightened raising of a given
individual's consciousness until they
are like the gods the books were set up
as a series of dialogues between the god
Hermes and others who conveyed the
secrets of the universe one of the
documents was a short piece called the
Emerald Tablet which became the bible
renaissance or cultists on this tablet
well it was said these are all legends
that there were twelve or thirteen lines
and these lines started with as above so
below this was the great idea of the
pattern of the universe the pattern of
the stars and the the great universe is
repeated as well on the earth the
Hermeticum restated the teaching of the
early mystery schools that human beings
possessed a divine nature
so this is really the goal of hermetic
initiation and any other kind of
initiation would be to transcend our
mortality and put us back into our
ultimate state as spiritual appears
Hermeticum dazzled Renaissance scholars
and occultism was reborn could the idea
that human beings shared a direct link
to God undermine the authority of the
church the discovery of the Hermeticum
during the Renaissance created a new
generation of occultists they sought to
combine religion with science and magic
a dangerous undertaking in a society
ruled by Christianity John Dean would
risk his life to study its teachings
John Dee was a giant John Dee was the
embodiment of the ideal of an
enlightened being who had the spiritual
understanding of his role and mission in
life and who was gifted with you know
superior intelligence
but like Pythagoras he would pay a heavy
price for daring to seek out the wisdom
of the gods
the ultimate Renaissance man Dee
followed in the footsteps of Paracelsus
using experimentation to become a gifted
scientist and inventor a mathematician a
brilliant cryptographer and a pioneer in
the field of navigation but he was also
an occultist he was a sorcerer he was an
astrologers in fact Queen Elizabeth's
personal court astrologer and in that
sense his interests were all very much
in keeping with the thinking of the time
there wasn't a distinction made between
magic and science and he was pursuing an
understanding of the world around him
when Queen Elizabeth rose to the throne
of England in 1558 she installed D as
court astrologer but his influence
reached far
his position England's famous magician
was also a spy for the Queen he was
involved with political intrigue he was
a trusted ally of of the Queen but he
was also working behind the scenes
throughout Europe to help to lower the
power of the church and to substitute
Protestant power in its stead with ds
guidance
Queen Elizabeth officially legitimized
the most significant occult science of
the Renaissance alchemy alchemists had
two goals to heal illness and to turn
base metal into gold they believed
success could be achieved by finding the
philosopher's stone a mystical agent
that would also produce a higher level
of consciousness in the alchemists that
was really an approach to trying to
understand the way the physical world
works
and alchemy as a practice it was the
forefather of modern chemistry alchemy
had existed since the early Egyptians
but in the hands of the Renaissance
scientists it reached new heights
everything that we know and do today in
our modern science was uh developed by
the alchemist laboratory techniques were
part of the alchemical tradition the
observation of results the scientific
method is is a child of alchemy
alchemists were on the leading edge of
science they discovered phosphorus zinc
the distillation of alcohol the germ
nature of diseases they were the first
to understand how blood circulates in
the body the church feud their
unorthodox experiments and scientific
breakthroughs with growing suspicion we
are speeding up what nature does we're
speeding up the rate at which the metals
evolve we're speeding up the rate at
which medicines are combined and and
raised consciousness and the church felt
that you can't be speeding up God's
creation without recourse to demons
despite his work in alchemy these true
occult passion lay in divination he
believed that he could apply scientific
methods to communicate with supernatural
beings these obsession with contacting
the Angels would have disastrous
consequences this art of manipulating
objects like bones tea leaves and tarot
cards had arrived from the Muslim East
in the 14th century and become a popular
method of fortune-telling but they used
a divination method known as scrying
they relied on looking into a crystal
ball that would reflect back
supernatural information scrying is a
long time old technique scrying into
glasses mirrors bodies of water anything
that would have a reflective surface and
see if you could see not just the
material things but the spiritual thing
standing behind these efforts were
unsuccessful until one day a young man
named Edward Kelly appeared at his door
Kelly seemed to have the talent to see
into the shadow world their system
involved Edward Kelly looking into a
amethyst crystal and describing what he
saw and John Dee would then record his
communications Kelly began receiving
messages from the Angels they spoke in
the language he called Enochian from the
lost Biblical Book of Enoch these
transmissions are early examples of what
New Age followers now
call channeling what Deann Kelly brought
forth was completely new it was not
based on tradition he appeared to be
speaking a new language the Enochian
language does appear to have a coherent
vocabulary and syntax and this doesn't
seem like the sort of thing that Kelly
who was not particularly educated or
schooled person could have just invented
he couldn't have faked something like
that John D and Kelly embarked on a tour
of Europe to share their discoveries
just as the Inquisition launched another
crackdown against heretics all you
needed was a slight change in political
or religious circumstance and something
that was considered exceptionally
wonderful would then be considered
demonic and scary D returned home to
England to find that a mom and destroyed
his irreplaceable library and scientific
and occult instruments D had fallen out
of favor with the court the man who
began as a leading scientist of the
Renaissance ended his life penniless
branded as a sorcerer DS main legacy is
not to science it is to magic and it's
because of those who have come after who
have seized upon what he created and
made it into a new world view whether
it's consciousness arts or ceremonial
magic or divination could take place
inside these new parameters that they
set up John D's fall was the beginning
of the occult end the practices were
reviled by the church as the work of
demonic possession
from the 14th through the 16th century
more than 40,000 people would be
executed for witchcraft occult ideas
became embedded in the traditions of
secret societies such as the Freemasons
and the Rosicrucians they were tending
to do them passed on among secret
Brotherhood's and organizations because
these are very powerful and dangerous
ideas dangerous to status quo dangerous
to institutionalized religion so there's
a an element of underground secrecy
associated with some of these themes
these havens have safety began to
flourish across Europe secret societies
were instrumental in the new age of
enlightenment that swept through Europe
and 1700s and even helped in the
founding of American democracy
participation in these organizations had
fallen dramatically by the mid 1800s as
they became more civic minded and less
interested in the occult so what would
cause a resurgence of cult in rural New
York two unlikely sisters would inspire
a national obsession with the occult
magic would once again capture
imaginations on March 31st 1848 sisters
Leah and Margaret Fox publicly declared
that they had contacted spirits from
beyond the grave
an American fascination for
communicating with the band occurred
almost overnight the Fox sisters used a
technique called seance which quickly
became one of America's most popular
pastimes people gathered in a darkened
room while a medium trying to make
contact with the spirit world
there would be camber eans and other
bells that would sound and the medium
would actually be able to exude
ectoplasm from their nostrils of her
mouth and it was the sort of spiritual
substance that allowed the spirits of
the Dead to manifest and make it appear
and in other cases the medium would
simply become a conduit or a channel
through which the deceased were able to
speak many who practice spiritualism
believed it would lead to scientific
proof of the existence and immortality
of the soul and they gained an iconic
champion when the Russian born Madame
Blavatsky arrived in New York at the
height of spiritualism popularity she
soon became the self-proclaimed decoder
of ancient occult secrets she grew up in
a wonderful occult library that her
father had established she could see the
connections between different cultures
spiritual teachings and she was
attempting to correct the errors of
Christianity by bringing in mysticism
and spirituality from other cultures
born in the Ukraine in 1831 to a
lower-ranking nobleman levansky was
married early but she abandoned her
husband to spend ten years traveling the
world she claimed to have studied with
mystical adepts in India and Tibet the
exotic cigar smoking medium became a
sensation in the occult circles she just
wouldn't accept limits she was one of
the most educated person anybody who met
her had ever met and they couldn't
understand how could this powerful
intellect be in this female body just
chewing up the landscape and producing
this tremendous inspiration levansky
seances were the talk of New York
mysterious letters would appear written
by spiritual leaders she called the
great white Brotherhood
livanski was not above of taking
advantage of the popularity of Sansa's
to
push her own cause and she used the
Sansa stand very spectacular effect
materialized letters written by bees
ascended masters as instructions being
passed down to her the Brotherhood
dictated her the books that became the
foundation of a new science of mysticism
theosophy Blavatsky wrote essentially
two gigantic collections Isis unveiled
and the Secret Doctrine which purported
to be the teachings the secret teachings
of this kind of Eastern Brotherhood the
mystery schools of initiation and she
totally altered the spiritual landscape
of Western civilization by introducing
those concepts she was very much a
pioneer in bringing ideas of Eastern
esotericism into the West she focused on
the similarities between Christianity
and Hinduism and Buddhism and other
spiritual traditions arguing that there
is in fact a tradition that underlies
all spiritual faiths in the world's
levansky regarded her work as spiritual
science and made connections between
recent scientific advancements and
occult beliefs levansky promoted the
ancient Eastern mystical view that the
essential nature of the world was not
matter but energy which foreshadowed the
discoveries of modern physics livanski
also revived the Eastern beliefs in
reincarnation and karma quickly
acquiring a cult phone she launched the
theosophy society the term theosophy
which levansky coined
welcome some to words their Greek origin
one is Theo's which means God and Sophia
which means wisdom so the Theosophical
Society was teaching divine or sacred
wisdom the Theosophical society spread
internationally and still exists in many
countries
livanski was hailed by her followers as
the mother of the new age but for all of
love at Sookie's charisma she soon fell
victim to her own success
and at the time that she was becoming
famous this business of spiritualism and
channeling and especially seances where
you'd call up your dead ancestors that
was going all over the Western world and
she felt like that was charlatanism so
she wanted to represent an a model that
stepped outside of that and spoke to the
verities the truth the larger thing but
unfortunately in the end she got reduced
down to the very thing she was trying to
fight in 1885 levansky was investigated
by London Society for psychical research
it concluded that her seances were
rigged writings didn't magically come
from beyond the grave
there was a spring-loaded device in the
bedroom above her chamber but allowed
some but allowed someone to put a letter
into this device and have it dropped
down between the floorboards and
materializing her hands though many
devoted followers refused to abandon
theosophy levansky was now tainted with
fraud she died soon afterwards her
followers established a new headquarters
in India where theosophy thrived a young
protege Krishnamurti was identified as a
reincarnated master and groomed to lead
the theosophy society into the 20th
century
livanski synthesis of eastern and
western spirituality broke new ground in
occultism a man described by newspapers
as the most wickedest man alive claimed
he had penetrated even deeper into
mysteries morn in 1875 Aleister Crowley
was raised in a strict religious
household his mother nicknamed him the
Beast from the book of Revelation it was
a title he embraced his entire
he identified himself as the Antichrist
as the force that would take away this
terrible Christian program which had so
warped his childhood
Crowley began studying the occult is a
member of the Golden Dawn the Hermetic
order of the Golden Dawn was the secret
society par excellence of the Victorian
age in England it brought together again
the knowledge that was available at that
point in time so you had Tarot and he
had Kabbalah you had John D's and
gellick magic and Rosicrucian and
traditions all being melded together
under a single system the golden dawn
attracted many of the London
intelligentsia
Crowley ultimately broke away from the
group he would find his own system of
belief after a trip to Egypt where his
wife received a mystical signal that
told him to prepare himself for a
message from the gods heeding the call
he began spontaneously writing a book he
called the book of the law this book
announces a new law for mankind and in
fact it tells us that we are very
emboldened and brightened spiritual
entities that in fact you know we are as
the gods the book of the law was another
synthesis of eastern and western
spirituality probably called his new
system the Lema it incorporated
principles of magic that he said he had
learned from ancient Egyptian and other
occult sources he became a
self-proclaimed master of action at a
distance focusing the power of his
intentional will to create desired
thanks Aleister Crowley defined magic as
the art and science of causing change to
occur in conformity with the will and
his whole approach is basically to
empower the practitioner to make their
intentions happen to materialize what
they want to have happen in the world
the Lila's fundamental law was do what
thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
love is the law love under will while
this may have meant pursuing a higher
path for some for others had excused
every variety of deviant behavior
some critics claimed that Crowley
himself was one of its worst defenders
Crowley was practicing sexuality as the
spiritual path he reduced a great deal
of symbolic teachings to their essence
which is essentially the duality or the
polarity between male and female and he
experimented greatly within within that
sphere to understand what it what
mysteries were contained within the
sexual act Crowley went on to start his
own secret society the Ordo Templi
Orientis and wrote numerous books about
meditation and ceremonial magic he also
helped reinterpret Tarot for the 20th
century the Tarot is a pictorial
representation of occult teachings it's
a method of going within and contacting
archetypal levels within oneself
spiritual levels and entering meditative
state in which intuition is heightened
and maybe even you know where you can
see certain patterns developing because
you're in the right state of mind while
popularized by Italian alone in the
1300s is playing cards some say
Taro's origins date to ancient Egypt
over time they
or cult significance Crowley developed a
deck of his own called the book of Thoth
based on the Egyptian magic he had
studied a popular divination tool today
Tarot is said to reveal information
about the seeker and the questions about
his future
everything that's related in one moment
of time is all connected so if two
people come together around a question
and they're manipulating an ocular tool
like this but if that manipulation is
intended to serve the need and the
feeling then it will make a mirroring
reflection of the energy that's produced
between the two people Crowley's
writings like Madame Blavatsky's were
heralded as forerunners of many new-age
ideas but despite his serious work in
occultism ultimately he became infamous
for his use of drugs and decadent sexual
behavior as Hitler rose to power in the
1930s Crowley's reputation was fatally
damaged euro-pro Nazi propaganda and was
soon an outcast after world war ii was
rumored that hitler had used Crowley's
and Madame Blavatsky's writings to help
him create his theory of a master race I
don't think there's any evidence that
Hitler read the works of Aleister
Crowley in per se it's it's definitely
known that Hitler and members of his
regime had a very keen interest in the
occult and they adopted via trappings of
occult symbolism ill and addicted to
opium Crowley spent his final days in a
boarding house and died in 1947 like
other occultist before him
Crowley attempted to learn the secrets
of the gods only to be discredited and
condemned by
sian I think that in the cases of these
great thinkers in history that we see
ultimately being persecuted for their
beliefs what's happening there is that
these people are very forward-thinking
and they challenge our preconceptions
they make people uncomfortable from that
level of discomfort that level of fear
and that threat that that thinking has
to people's power base that leads
societies and governments and other
institutions to act against people who
speak out in that way once again
occultism seemed to disappear they would
take the drugs rebellion and social
upheaval of the 1960's to usher in its
next revival occult practices languished
on the fringes of society for most of
the 20th century but they resurfaced
during the hippie movement of the 60s
popular gurus like the Maharishi and
Timothy Leary promoted the altered
states of consciousness that could lead
to higher levels of self-awareness
individualism became the goal of
millions of young people who rejected
traditional religion to find their own
direct route to God by the 1980's New
Age ideas have become mainstream Madame
Blavatsky's writings became pivotal in
reinterpreting occultism for modern
audiences and even Aleister Crowley's
reputation was someone restored there
was this booming occult interest that
resulted in Crowley being almost a
pop-culture icon the Beals put Aleister
Crowley on the cover of Sergeant Pepper
you have musicians like David Bowie and
Jimmy Page becoming very interested in
Crowley he experienced a renaissance as
it were in the 60s and 70s and has been
a very popular figure ever since well
called belief systems are now embraced
by millions of new-age followers who
pick and choose
their wide array of concepts to fashion
their own individual brand of
spirituality yet the occult is still
often regarded with suspicion many of
those who practice occultism describe it
as a modern mystical quest the mystical
quest is the process by which a limited
time space bound human being can
transcend their background and history
and come into this divine eyes or
macrocosmic consciousness and that is
the process of becoming immortal you
know leaving this physical flesh behind
and being successively identified with
larger and larger realms of reality the
holistic philosophy of New Age beliefs
continues to grow in popularity we're
surrounded by material wealth and
technology and we feel like we've lost
something we've lost that connectedness
we've lost the understanding of our
human roots and a lot of the interest in
New Age ideas and a lot of the look back
to ancient ideas stems from that desire
to reconnect with that history and to
make us feel more whole more spiritual
more connected more aware of the passion
and meaning of life around us but what
began as a cult magic has informed the
world of science there were attempts
legitimate attempts to try to understand
the way the world works and there would
there would not be astronomy today if it
had been three ancient astrologers
studied the heavens there would that be
chemistry today if weren't for the
alchemists who did their thing as well
some of the secrets that they thought
they were working on were the secret of
eternal life the secret of being able to
be without disease than the great
secrets of transformation let's say have
led into gold but that's like not the
only one maybe one of the
transformations is the human being
to a godlike thing and it's a wonderful
thing that now we come around to
particle physics and people thinking
that life is pure energy and that maybe
there is a connection between those
ideas that maybe the the power to become
godlike is in the ability to transform
yourself medicine and science have
benefitted from the input of occultism
and in the future what we think of as
magic may play a role in even greater
discoveries in our push to science we're
a culture of specialists very focused on
particular areas so I think some of that
holistic nature from the past is
necessary to make the breakthroughs that
we are currently not able to make in
science beliefs can blind us whatever
religious beliefs or scientific beliefs
and the great thing about these occult
sorts of experiments is that they keep
us open the possibility despite the
progress made by science the modern
world is still full of mysteries that
may never be solved it's the unknowable
it's the mystery and that mystery is the
center of the spiritual quest but it's
also the center of the scientific quest
and the artistic quest that is what
we're here on earth to do is seek after
that mystery
like the first occultists modern
scientists would continue to search for
ways to divine the mysteries of our and
the forces that have created
you
and cats listen close to their kittens
the Lambs have laid down with the Sheep
your cozy and warm in your bed my dear
please go the fuck to sleep
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