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ralph's avatar

res cogitens!

res extensa!

GREAT TASTE!

LESS FILLING!

great work, well written. Never heard of Squirtle or whatever it was. He seems to be conflating Bulgarian Bogomils and some more creative platonic schizophrenia. SPOILER ALERT.. what he speaks of all comes together in Parts reintegration therapy, Virginia Satyr... if that is her real name..

As a spooky Methodist, following in the footstep of John Wesley. The main issue with the occult influences on the ideology of Nazis, comes from a lazy translation. Le Matin de les magiciens, was titled Morning of the Magicians in English.. the people still eat it up, the titlers never went to mass. Matins is latin for orthos, and while it takes place in the morning, it's definitely a service. In Greek rites it prepares the church for receiving the profane spirits seeking repentence and worship. That seems like a small misstep, except it is the difference between a sunrise and a sacrifice.

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Aristocratic Dog's avatar

Hmm, for those who are into parapsychology, Schertel’s ideas are not too far off. I guess if you take the demonic harnessing as a metaphor and not some metaphysical essence, it works as well as Tantra does.

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Krug's avatar

Ya there is definitely something to it. I think it’s just that back then they had more of a dark-magician vibe. Much less scientifically minded.

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John Freeman's avatar

Would the term daemon be more clarifying than “demon”? I know it doesn’t truly matter as demon is a derivative of daemon, but to the ancients daemon was not necessarily evil. It was your persona force, your personal will, and to the degree that you had great daemon is the degree to which you affected the world. This sounds almost exactly what this guy us saying about this “higher self”. It was said that alexander had great daemon. But I dont think that there is nothing but cosmic chaos, I would diverge there.

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Krug's avatar

It’s hard to tell. The translation is kind of amateurish in a way and my German is very bad. Havent tried to go through the original. Perhaps that’s what he meant. But I don’t know. It would be difficult to explain in his system nonetheless.

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