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Gods and Divine Potential
What is the ‘god’ structure in Hinduism? That differs, but there are some principles across the board. One is the concept of a universal spirit called by many names, but not in a divisive way. More as a recognition of the manifold nature of this universal spirit. It is called by the Brahminists, Brahman, called…
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Divine Mind
When you make God a person you automatically limit God, and that isn’t possible. When you say God is the person, and no one else is God, then no one at all is God. For something to be a supreme being it would have to be all knowing. Nothing outside of it’s mind, literally nothing. …
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To Divine
Divination is perhaps the most simple metaphysical practice possible, and so people naturally tend to get into a lot of trouble with it. For every culture (I mean literally every culture), there have been one or more oracles. Oracle is any system or technique practiced to divine, or the one practicing the divining. My true…
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Closest to the Divine
Even the “saints” felt spiritual darkness. The term “dark night of the soul“ was used to describe the doubts experienced by a man now seen as an exemplar of his faith. It’s been expressed in a lot of art also, but people don’t seem to think about it. The poem “Footprints in the Sand“ says in your…
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Agents Of The Divine
In Shintoism, when a Kanushi sought to exorcise a malicious spirit, they would pray not to be made as a Dragon or one of the high celestial Kami. They would pray to be made like the Oni who were low spirits, savage, and their place in the celestial bureaucracy was as punishers of those who…
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Path Of Gods
Shall we conclude the history lesson and get down to theurgic practice? Specifically referencing Asherah, as only bits and pieces of her wisdom are preserved in the original Judaic form, you would need to adopt them from another cultures that also venerated her, and theurgy doesn’t require sticking strictly to cannon either. Christian Gnosticism mostly…
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Divine Lights
I won’t be discussing orthodox Kabbalah in detail, just a synopsis mostly. But I will answer more specific questions as best I can. Kabbalah is in a sense a form of theurgy. In it, God is infinite and includes all things, all potentials, and is in the purest sense unknowable. In it, all aspects of…
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States of Divine Madness
Here is where I begin to get weird, but first off… All the traits we call psychotic are also naturally present in “normal” people. So what creates these possibilities in consciousness is completely natural, wouldn’t you say? I will offer that they are imprinted on us by the environment. They seem to be what psychiatrists…
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Socially Inspired Divine Madness
First, let’s look at the current state of socially inspired divine madness. Then we can explore what others are like, shall we? Remember I said that the madness is shaped by an inspiring spirit? Well, take humanity as a collective, I mean modern humanity, and then lead the oracle through all their states of being.…
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Zoroastrian Divine Beings
Tonight, we are talking about Zoroastrianism or Zarathustrianism. Both are accepted by current adherents of which there are very few compared to what there once were. Their religion is the oldest revealed doctrine religion on the planet, and has had a powerful influence on each of the other contemporary religions of that region. Older than…
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Devotion to the Divine
Shall I start with personal gods or go into the complicated one first? Personal. Ok. The different traditional paths of bhakti have their root in traditions leading way back into the history of India. They refer to them as lineages. The divinity being shown devotion represents principles that are seen as both essential and transcendental…