Message from @☦ Slouch ☦
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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
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
@Quasi He wrote the 7 hermetic principles
mastering them is said to transmute the soul
but I thought ''okay, if alchemists aren't actually dumb enough to think during current year that you can turn lead into gold, what is it''?
I found a video from marshal ironsides
alchemy is just primitive chemistry
who loves reading evola
tbh most western occultism is just overtly convoluted spook opinions of Vedic "left hand path" heresy
and pretty advanced