Message from @Lekka
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you're a pagan dude
And Catholicism absorbed pagan philosophy as a means of bolstering their own metaphysics. Have you looked into hermeticism at all yet?
No nor am i gonna lol
You asked for it like a week ago
Not wasting my time unironically researching paganism
yeah i was interested for like 5 minutes
I figured you might want to know where the system of natural law that Catholics use came from
okay, so Hermeticism and Catholicism are both foundationally premised upon the ability to use logos as a means of understanding and predicting reality. Hermeticism tells you how to be good but being good isn't implicit in the faith. The ultimate truth of God is that his power is what allows for him to be an arbiter of morality and nothing else, so morality is dictated by power but the consequences are not
Hermeticists are supposed to promote the existence of our species and existence overall.
Sometimes creation is fueled through the promologation of suffering and passion: Doing nothing is the equivalent to fading away.
destruction is the first part of creation
Death is the final step before birth
Same principle: every man and woman is a star: and stars explode into stardust which become new stars
the eternal cycle
Yup
tbh its one of if not the most beautiful thing that exists
Talking about Hermeticism? Cool.
Life is poetry in motion: sometimes the depths of suffering are beautiful and provide us with meaning that motivates us to move on.
@Greg Noir It can be a bit difficult with the Christians because they generally just tend to ignore me. But yeah
"christians"
Oh.
I wanted to read about Hermeticism because I learned it was a continuation of the Egyptian religion.
sorta
not the religion as a whole but the philosohpy
From what I can gather it's a Greek system based on Babylonian and Egyptian metaphysics
Oh, is that what metaphysics is? I simply called it theology.
greek and egyptian paganism are quite similar because the greeks ruled egypt for quite a long time
It's a magical framework that is built on the presupposition that we were created by a God that loves us and wants us to create.
Yes, the Ptolemaic period.
I've read magic is part of Hermeticism. Is that how it is practiced? I think there is a difference between the ancient and modern Hermeticism.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/497115?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Babylonian Origin of Hermes the Snake-God, and of the Caduceus I
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-egyptian-magicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep
@Greg Noir The difference being secular science was divorced from theology. Principally Hermetic philosophy lines up with quantum physics
I'll read on these articles.
Perception affects the superposition of objects in reality. There also seems to be non local observer dependence on super positions as well which implies reality is cognitive
Here's the basics of hermeticism from the perspective of the Kybalion (the actual Hermetic texts are known as the Corpus Hermeticum"
I've got a library of books on this stuff that I'll send your way
Ah, this is what you mean by the physics?