Message from @ComradeChaos
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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?
This is a very simplified version of it, but essentially
It is a way of understanding life through a set of laws then.
Essentially, you'd be surprised how many of the "Islamic scientists" who muslims hold up as testament to their scientific achievements actually were hermeticists.
I learned in HS that much of Greek philosophy was preserved by Muslims and brought to Europe by trade. Before Mohammed there were the Mandaeans, a Gnostic religion still existing in present day Iraq.
Now you've given me something to look up, I had never heard of this group before, though I am familiar with gnostics. I find it interesting that they still maintain the title system of rabbi though
I find it interesting that they integrated baptism as a ritual. I took a quick glance at their main holy book, Ginza Rba, and it seems to be some metaphysical polytheism in which their gods embody aspects of the spiritual world.
>The name 'Mandaean' is said to come from the Aramaic manda meaning "knowledge", as does Greek gnosis
>According to most scholars, Mandaeaism originated sometime in the first three centuries AD, in either southwestern Mesopotamia or the Syro-Palestinian area.[6] However, some scholars take the view that Mandaeanism is older and dates from pre-Christian times.[7]
ok epic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
im happy that this went from atheists vs christians and some denomination debates to a satanist schizo posting
@OrthoGoat i dont see any jews here
this guy is basically a jew
This guy shills Jews
even worse than that he is looking into magic and rituals from pagans
the ammount of cringe is surreal
```Jews are theologically superior to you in nearly every way lol```
To muslims? Yeah they are and I stand by that
Jews are theologically inferior to everyone
At least muslims don't say Christ is in hell
Jews are literally just modern satanists, I dont see by what metric you can compare superiority in this case
jews HAVE always been satanists
satanists are jews
not all satanists are jews but all jews are satanists
satanism is very common with older religions
in what sense
theres representations of saturn AKA satan in many pagan religions
even the Egyptians had saturn as a god if im not wrong
The Romans and Greeks did
I think Zoroastronists also had representations of saturn but idk if they worshipped him, I need to look more into that