@☦ Slouch ☦ sounds good

And the main character is a ubermensch and everyone else is either indian or arab

what's the source of that gif?

I once found this video from wikileaks way back of some UFO

I lost it though

wonder how real it was

ok vril, give me the scoop. what the hell is alchemy and thauturgy, all that hermetic stuff

@Quasi alchemy is trying to turn your state of consciousness into "gold" or the apotheosis "enlightened" state

the idea is that through successive experiments you can induce states of consciousness which changes your inner nature and makes you a higher being or something

it's usually associated with negative shit though

thauturgy I don't know much about

hermeticism is pantheistic philosophy about magic being intrinsically related to the will

read the hermetic laws

in the hermetic view you can do almost anything with your will if you properly do it

I've heard of alchemy being a transmutation of the soul

yes pretty much

most specifically, what Julius Evola said apparently

it's making your soul higher than what it is now

and a mentioning of the Hermetic Order

although this is folly

you ascend or descend according to karma

like some sekrit society that wrote the books in cryptic ways

Hermeticism predates alchemy

hence turning lead into gold meme

dude if you want to read evola you have a long list of books you have to read before hand

Hermeticism is prob the only occult group which weren't originally malevolent imo

what? my understanding was that Hermes discovered alchemy

Hermes Trismagestus's secret key writings are actually quite benevolent

including some books that you cannot get ahold of anymore

he was wrong about philosophy of course

@☦ Slouch ☦ I only listened to some reading him aloud about this

being a pantheist

but still

he was a good man

I was just curious

I met some guy calling himself an alchemist on the internet

and he was unhelpful in telling me what he was