Opinion piece writers salivating at the bit to tell you that kidnapping a head of state and starting a nakedly self-interested war is lowkey morally nuanced and kinda complicated as fuck.
I thought it was a quran I was like wowww MashAllah
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really like the headless ungulate hieratic symbol
I don’t agree. The Libri Tres were pretty clearly written as an accessible systematization of occult philosophy. I don’t think he was trying to mislead anyone. He has pretty clear goals of trying to normalize renaissance occult thought.
Did the hebrew alphabet get re-arranged between now and 1545? I thought daleth was the fourth letter. What is Postel talking about here?
Also yod does not look particularly triangular to me. But in postel’s own work he DOES transcribe daleth as triangular.
The core of this book is a question; why do people believe strange things? When a medieval frenchman believes that the planet mars floats on a sea of rarified aether, and is pushed across the sky by a cadre of angels, why does he believe that? The answer, broadly speaking, is history. The value of rainstorms in the deserts of Jerusalem lend popularity to a god of storms. German doctors purchase alchemical flasks to distill medicine. A Russian noblewoman uses her husband's money to hold seance parties in America. History conspires to shape what is normal to believe, and what is not. But history never sits still. Religion, politics, economics, philosophy, the myriad gears of history are always changing and growing. What is normal one day, might be strange and backwards the next. To understand magic, we must understand its history.
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Do you have any insight as to why “guardian angels” seem to often be referenced in New Agey circles?
It seems oddly theistic compared to the other typical new agey stuff I’ve seen.
Its a very modern, as in modernity, idea isn’t it? An individualized divinity that you and you alone can connect to.