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Weird things happened in the back.
Weird weird, weird. Wow. I'm

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your host, Tremdic Man. We're
going to talk about the hermetic philosophy in

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episode one. In episode one fifty
three, let me finish what wistern tradition

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is? This? Is it boor
it's been a while, Hey, Alex,

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what was the psition? Is this? Three? Isn't four? I

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don't freaking know. But we're gonna
talk about hermeticism. Yeah, And it

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is a very exciting community, and
it's very old. It's very you know,

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prolific, and I feel like,
dude, you kind of remind me

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of somebody who just got called up
to explain their project. You did not

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do any work about their projects standing
in front of the class thing. It's

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very this it's very I'm not dogging
you. I'm just well, I'm glad

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you're not dogging you. Man,
I'm totally dogging you. But I know

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you prepared for this. Oh my
god. It's like, you know,

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some days you say I'm handsome,
some days you say I'm not. I

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mean, I've never said you're not. It's a full disclosure thing, you

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know, I've never said for the
record, I've never said you're not handsome.

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You just sometimes say I am,
and sometimes you don't, which when

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you don't, you might as well
be saying he's not handsome. So we're

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gonna need to say, well,
I'll take that into account, so well

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move on. Yeah, we're gonna
move on and we're going to recover from

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that. So her medicism, I
want to get into the legendary origin and

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what it is according to like the
mystical version, you know, and then

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we'll go into the historicity. Her
Medicism is very fascinating to me. Particularly

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that did kind of feel like I
was narrating something there, didn't it a

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little bit? A little bit?
I like it though. It's kind of

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like a nature documentary, yeah,
or like a philosophy documentary. Yeah,

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you know, a full documentary if
you will, never we go philosophiz baby,

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Oh hit me with it. Yeah, man, I just can't stop

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thinking about Alex as a sugar baby. Really, that what stuck in your

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mind right now? Yeah, I
mean it's kind of hard to start after

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that shit we were talking about.
That's true, but I digress. Yeah,

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we were just having a riveting conversation, that's all right. Before the

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camera was rolling. I am loving
the way that this episode is starting.

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Everything about this is great. It's
been a while since a deep dive,

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and I'm just feeling a little shy
in front of the Alex is dying right

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now behind his desk. He's lost. Oh dude, we do got to

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make an honorable mention. You know. Obviously, Alex was here last night

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recording Full Disclosure, so we were, you know, catching up on stuff

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last night. Did you see the
most recent appearance of Duncan Trussell on Joe

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Rogan? Yeah? Mind you of
anyone? The way that they showed up.

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Somebody put that in the discord.
Somebody did. Yeah, they put

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in the discord. Is that's what
I said in Full Disclosure? Yeah?

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Yeah, they have one made a
meme about it. Oh my god,

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dude, I missed that they put
Joe and Duncan dressed as Alex this episode.

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That's amazing. That is so funny. It's pretty close. Oh,

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I'm just realizing because they had like
the the like morph suits on and they

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said Tesla on him. They were
dressed as like the Tesla bots. Were

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they I'm just putting that together.
Yeah, I didn't even watch it.

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I just saw the picture and then
Alex brought it up last night. He

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was like, dude, someone I
guess you did say someone in a comment

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that that's how you dressed on the
Tom's Tom Batforce bat Force Radio. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, so funny.
That's an obscure thing that I wonder

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how many of our viewer slash listeners
have actually seen. Probably not very many

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of them, but for those of
you who don't know, we went on

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Bat Force Tom's show and Alex just
showed up in full Riddler cosplay like it

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was. It was so legendary.
Didn't tell us he was gonna do it,

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nope or anything, just showed up
and we saw it. And it

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was difficult to record that episode.
And he was quiet for a while too,

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just stared at us. Why he
didn't say anything. The first twenty

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minutes he didn't say anything, and
then there was some kind of break or

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something they brought up. They brought
up an example. So, okay,

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I'm I'm on fire. Wow wow, No, I've got this sche mask

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on and it jacket, full coat, sitting inside and I'm just sweating,

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and I'm like we're twenty minutes and
I'm like I cannot do this much longer,

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and they showed an example of what
they were talking about on the screen

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and covered the whole screen with this
picture. I ran off camera, took

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everything off, and sat back down
like in normal clothes. You want to

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know what My favorite part about that
whole situation was the entire time while Alex

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is head to toe in this garb, this was his face for twenty minutes

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straight. He was like this,
I have the picture somewhere, dude.

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It was like it was like he
couldn't get over how funny he was being.

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It was like he couldn't hide it. He couldn't. He was just

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like it was like it was like
you could see his thoughts and they were

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just like, I'm so funny,
right now, that's true. That's amazing.

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So it's true. The dedicated fans
out there, go find that and

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watch it. You will not be
disappointed. It is life imitates art.

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Yeah, sure, that's a real
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imitation life? I don't know,
No, I think you had it right

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the first time. I just don't
really see how it applies here. But

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it's okay, right, It's just
funny that he did it, and it

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was obscure, and then it was
like the same concept was done on a

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much bigger show, right right,
right, Okay, yeah, it's just

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funny. It was legendary. Yeah. So moving back to her meticism,

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it's very special to me because when
I first was kind of like coming out

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of my fundamental Christian stage many years
ago, back when I was still kind

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of like, you know, I
guess if this phenomenon stuff started when I

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was thirteen. By the time I
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really having doubts about like going to
traditional church anymore. How do I fit

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in this framework? How does this
make sense? According to what I'm being

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told is real, but then what
I'm experiencing and seeing is actually real.

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How does this work? You know, the beings are saying all these things

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about ancient Egypt and the Pyramids and
the Sphinx, and you know, I'm

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in Raw and other names like Hathor, and then I'm going to Pentecostal church

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on Sunday, And in my mind, I was like, this just doesn't

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line up. Like I I was
like grasping for something more. But as

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you know, growing up in the
Christian Church, you're not encouraged to study

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anything outside of the Bible very much
the opposite you are. You are explicitly

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told like if you are looking into
any other religion or whatever, you are

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like actively sinning and like will go
to hell. Yeah, like it's it's

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all demonic or satanic or God forbid, you know, a cult. Yeah.

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And I remember being in my brother's
room one time and he had this

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like Christian book that was given to
him and it was about like the evils

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of the occult and had these pentagrams
and symbols on it, and I just

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remember growing up and having this this
this lens pushed on me that anything outside

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of the Bible, anything occult or
esoteric, is inherently evil. And then

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you know, cut to twenty twelve, all this, like I guess conspiracy

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stuff went wildly mainstream, probably because
everyone thought the world was gonna end or

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something, and you know, the
cern had drunk Alider was going off,

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and twenty twelve was just a crazy
year for humanity. I think it was

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like probably even though we didn't know
it at the time, it was probably

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a leap in consciousness. I mean
really, like, if you think about

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it, twenty twelve was a crazy
year. That's the year I found out

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about the Illuminati. Now, I
know, in the past, on previous

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episodes, I've made comments like maybe
there are misinterpretations of the word and what

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it actually means. You know,
the idea of like this this group that

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you know is very small in number, probably less than one percent of the

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world's population, but control the wealth
and the resources and the knowledge and big

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pharma and agriculture and tech and all
of the you know, Hollywood media,

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et cetera, all of that stuff. I mean, there really is some

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sort of influential group that holds all
this power. But my question in the

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past has been like what do we
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You know, I don't know,
but yeah, yeah, like three years,

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I mean that's like OG episodes.
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I do believe there is some sort
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kind of have met people who are
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positions of power who have claimed to
be in the Illuminati. And you know,

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so it's like, for the for
the sake of conversation, I'm just

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using that term in the context,
right, you know, So the Illuminati

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or whatever I find out about that
in twenty twelve, and I start to

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learn a little bit more about Freemasonry
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from the lens of like, yes, I'm seeing these beings and understanding there's

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something more out there, some sort
of extra biblical knowledge, but I'm still

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within the framework of like being a
Pentecostal classical Christian and not understanding where to

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go, where to turn to,
and then furthermore thinking all that stuff is

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evil or a cult. Yeah,
because you can't even really entertain like other

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interpretations right of the Bible. Oh, you can't stray from the path in

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the slightest it's like take it literally
and that's literally. That's it. Like

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I remember my pastor saying at one
point, this is just how crazy it

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can be, like literally at one
point being like, well, you know,

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at first the view was like,
you know, fundamental that there's there's

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a split. I believe I learned
about this in intro to religion in college.

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It's like there's Old Earth Christians and
New Earth Christians, and it's like

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a academic term for the split in
Christianity where they're the uh, the Old

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Earth Christians are open to the interpretation
that Earth is billions of years old,

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right, and then the new Earthers
are like, no, it's six thousand

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years old, like, you know, a lot of the Bible belt and

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people we know and what we're used
to. Yeah, but there, you

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know, there is a split,
right. But anyway, so I remember

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at one point my pastor having this
out of the box thought in church,

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you know, and being like,
well, I think that the dinosaurs walked

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beside humans six thousand years ago,
you know, because it's like they found

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bones. But Earth is only six
thousand years old. You see what I'm

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saying. I'm just saying this trying
to rationalize it within the context of the

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quote unquote literal Bible. Right.
Yeah, that's my point is it gets

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to be absurd when your whole framework
of the universe is contained within the less

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than one thousand pages of the sixty
six books of the Bible that, by

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the way, we're given to us
by the people in power. Just saying

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we did a whole episode on it. You know, I'm not I'm not

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mocking or denying any sort of you
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the lesson and teachings with the Bible. I'm just saying the structure that it

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is today was given to us,
and there's a lot to question, and

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there's a lot that we don't understand
about house conceived. You know, you

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get what I'm saying. Yeah,
I mean, we did the whole History

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of the Bible episode where we talked
about the stuff that was taken out and

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the stuff that was added, and
the stuff that was just arbitrarily decided upon.

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Yeah. I'm not going to go
on to all that now because we've

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already done it. But my point
is I wasn't at that point yet in

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twenty twelve, and I'm learning about
the Illuminati, I'm learning about freemasons,

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I'm learning about all this stuff,
and I'm like, oh my god,

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this is crazy. You know,
my mind is like expanding with what's out

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there, still trying to read the
Bible to understand it. How can you

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learn about, you know, the
taste of an orange if all you eat

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is apples, You know what I
mean? You just can't. You just

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can't understand something until you've interfaced with
it personally and directly. So cut forward

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about two or three years. At
this point, I'm a junior in college

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and I by this point okay,
so I went to a small university.

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It's a private university in Fayetteville called
Methodist University, and it used to it

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started in the fifties, it was
called Methodist College. It used to be

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a Christian school, like literally a
Methodist Christian school, and they did away

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with that. It became a university, but it was still private. So

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part of the curriculum to graduate by
like bare minimum, you had to have

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two philosophy and religion courses usually not
required when you went that was required.

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Yeah, it's usually not required to
college. You don't have to take philosophy

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and religion as far as I know, but a Methodist you did. So

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I took the two philosophy and religion, and I ended up loving the classes

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so much because of all of this
crazy knowledge that I learned. I was

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like, oh my God. And
then you get to a point where you're

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like, by like sophomore or junior
year, you're kind of like mostly through

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the credits you need for your major. Especially by senior year, you're like,

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dang, I just need to take
bs classes to graduate. I had

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to just take I need, you
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So at that point I was like, well, I'll just take more religion,

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and by the time I was at
about my seventh religion class, the

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chair of the department was like,
dude, you literally can declare this as

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a minor. And I was like, oh, sweet, awesome. I

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was just having fun, you know, and like my highest grade was in

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the philosophy and Religion department and it's
too late for me to graduate with that

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degree, but I enjoyed it way
more than everything else. So by about

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my junior year, I started taking
this class called I can't remember what it

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was called because it's been like ten
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a higher level. It was like
a major level religion course, like at

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the three or four hundred level.
One hundred is like freshman or intro.

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Then you have two hundred, three
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is like freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, you know what I mean,

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Like when you're going through a major. People who are not in a

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major are not typically taking three hundred
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was at this point because I was
just going deeper into the system and I

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was taking this course that was like
it was basically like an overview. Oh.

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It was called early Christianity. That's
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That's right. I knew it,
it was on the tip of my tongue.

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But it was this class where the
entire semester's overview was the literal formation

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of Christianity, not the or the
real historical historical origin. Yes, and

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it wasn't like, you know,
reading the Gospels. It was actually completely

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the opposite. It was like looking
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of like Philo of Alexandria, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder, and you know,

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all of these historians and Roman officials
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about this, and it's like real
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things happened or existed, you know, like historicity rights, nothing to do

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about reading the Bible or anything like
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is when my life really changed.
This was the second time I had heard

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this phrase. It was told to
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it. In that class, we
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right, We've done episodes on Gnosticism. We did a whole wisdim tradition

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segment in that class, I learned
about the Gnostic movement and I was like,

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oh my god, this is crazy. Started diving into their texts reading

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it. I remember having heard the
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worship Lucifer. It's the devil,
it's the illuminati, you know, like

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that terminology being thrown around. But
then I learned about the actual history of

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it, like being forced at the
literal university level to study it and read

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some of the texts, understand the
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how they were killed, how the
different sects, Valentinian Gnosticism, you

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know, how they came to be
in history. And I went home and

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I started diving deeper into it.
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year, I had a dream.
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this point that I had this dream, and in my dream, Osiris came

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to me. I've talked about this
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really profound. It was like the
kind of dream that was perspective shifting,

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that were like frogs hopping around my
room. And I caught one of these

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frogs and it died in my hand. And I was really sad, and

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then it was reborn and it came
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it was super vivid. It felt
almost lucid, except I wasn't in control,

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and Osiris was just standing at the
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like telling me something, but I
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I woke up the next day and
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brother doing construction. Right out of
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I was just like, well,
in the meantime, I'll just work

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with you, yeah, you know. And I remember all day like beating

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my brain like what did that mean? What did that mean? That dream

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was so weird. And that night
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about Osiris, ancient Egypt, the
frogs, the symbolism. I found out

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that there was frog symbolism of o
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they don't literally die, but they
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from tadpole to frog. They transform
metamorphosis right, symbolic of like the transformation

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of the soul. And I learned
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a figure in the way ancient past
that they accredited to being a man named

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King Osyrus, who was like the
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a flail. The crook is like
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oh my god, there's something really

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to this. That night I came
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how did I was just reading everything
I could about so you were researching

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because of the dream, and you
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It's a word that I had seen
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Gnostic thing, it was framed to
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It's satanic, you know, it's
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I never like looked into it.
I never cared, you know what.

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In my mindset back then, I
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I thought was evil or satanic.
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Then I found it, and I
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definitely all night. I remember at
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parents and I just shut myself in
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to them, and I just researched
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into it, and then a year
later I was living in Wilmington with my

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wife. We weren't married yet,
but I just remember it being about a

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year before I really looked into it
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furniture store with Alex, and I
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or the Rizzler as they know him, and here in the streets, and

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we're getting him off the streets.
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to. We just have toity,
you have to keep him off the streets.

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the Rizzler. Okay, all right, So anyway, because the Rizler,

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we have to we have to keep
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sheets. Yeah, because he's crazy. Man. Yeah. I was working

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with Alex at the time, and
as it goes, in our furniture job

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that we worked at Ashley, there
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like, you know, you don't
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it's like, you know, you
you kind of can you have the freedom

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to just maybe look on your phone
for a little bit or whatever. You

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know. Yeah, it wasn't like
a job where you actively had to do

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work constantly. It was sales,
so it was like, Oh, someone's

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in the store, blah blah blah
blah blah, they're gone. All right,

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cool, the act is up.
I'm gonna chill for a little bit.

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where I was so bored because I
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would just I would dive into these
texts because I I didn't really have the

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time between when I discovered it till
then to really look into this stuff,

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because then I went through the move
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and it was out of my mind
for like over a year, you

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know. And I start going into
her meticism deeper and studying it, listening

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to podcasts about it, and then
listening to other podcasts, and it would

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pop up and I would hear about
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that it was prominent historically, and
I read some of the Corpus Hermeticum,

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and I read this text called the
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and I was I'll tell you how
I found it because in the text the

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Divine Pimander, which was this dragon
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symbolized God, the highest transcendent mind, like emanating the universe into existence,

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teaching hermestrs Majistus about the fundamental structure
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known as Osyrus the dragon, Yes, the divine pimander dragon. He's he's

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also known as he's said to be
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So I was like, dang,
there's a weird connection here with you know,

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with this Egyptian these dreams I'm having, And at one point I did.

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I had a dream about hieroglyphs,
and and I was just being pulled

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to this Egyptian knowledge. But when
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it's just kind of, you know, it has the appearance of like paganism.

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It's like, how can I really
put any significance into this, you

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know, it's like, yeah,
don't take this the wrong way. But

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it's like looking at Hellenistic Greek mythology, it's like, oh, this is

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really cool, But like where do
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the relevant distilled truth from this,
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do for me right now? Like, yeah, in my journey of finding

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out what consciousness and the spirit is. Like, right, it's like I

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understand that, you know, this
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but I'm trying to find the legitimate, deep spiritual significance of this Egyptian stuff.

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It's like, where do I go? And her Meticism hit me like

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lightning, And I got a couple
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I'm gonna is this post the Lady? Oh yeah, gotcha? Yeah?

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Yeah? So which is? You
know? The lady shows up, starts

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telling your dad about Egypt, frags
his soul to Egypt. Like it's right,

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It's like you must have had some
inkling in your mind, like okay,

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Egypt. So I was like,

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where do I go. It's like
you are being pulled from every direction to

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look into Egypt. Right, Yeah, so I found her meticism. Yeah.

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So here's just a couple of really
cool quotes from the Divine Pimander.

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It's known as probably the oldest Hermetic
text. I gotta scroll all the way

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down to the bottom of my notes
here. I put him at the bottom,

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The Divine Pimander, that which is
below is like that which is above,

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and that which is above is like
that which is below. To accomplish

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the miracles of the one thing.
The Light is the Son of God,

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from whom emanate, from whom emanated
the goodness. This is the Mind,

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the Word, the Wisdom, and
the Light. For I am the Mind

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and the Light, and the Word
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the Peace and the mercy, and
the Salvation and the Rest and the rebirth,

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and the Truth and the Father.
Thus, he who knows himself knows

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all things in himself. For the
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is knowledge. And the Word of
God is above all things, and the

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beginning and the end, the mighty
ruler of all of creation. And like

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I said, it's this story of
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going to go into in a minute. This dragon comes down from the heavens,

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pulls him up and takes him on
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and space and shows him this vision
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from the fire, from the highest
flame. And at some point either in

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the text or like scholars speaking about
the text are like he was also the

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divine Pimanders represented was represented as o
Soryrus. So it's like, okay,

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there's something here, so I go
deeper. So now it's like enough about

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my introduction to it. What is
it? So hermeticism is in the esoteric

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community, you could say, or
the body of esoteric literature is considered to

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be the primordial knowledge, the priss
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the concept that there is one original
knowledge that transcends all established religions and is

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more ancient than all established religions and
in fact influences the religions. It's like

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the single light that is shining into
all religions. It's the older knowledge,

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the oldest knowledge. It's the primordial
truth. Right. The legend goes that

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Hermistro's Magestus was the sage at the
first ever enlightened sage who existed. Some

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speculate whether he was a real man. Maybe it's a mythological figure, and

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it's this group of an initiates who
were drafting this idea of this like godlike

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figure to try to carry the story
through the ages. Was he real?

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Was he not? We don't really
know. And there's all kinds of like

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historical evidence of people, like referencing
the texts and referencing the figure as an

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enlightened sage, like legitimate substantiated historical
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Sufism. They actually say in some
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Enoch. Yeah, I was gonna
say. There's lots of parallels with other

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religions, some traditions. Some Jewish
historians like our tappiness. It's hard to

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say his name. I haven't written
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he says. That's pretty sick.
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the teacher of Orpheus, and when
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things. He was the inventor of
ships, the machines for laying stones,

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Egyptian arms, and engines for drawing
water in war. He invented philosophy.

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Further, he divided the state into
thirty six gnomes and appointed the god to

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be worshiped by each gnome, and
the sacred writing for the priests and their

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gods were cats and dogs and ibises. Like thought. He also apportioned in

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a special district for the priests.
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of keeping the sovereignty firm and safe. For I don't know how to say

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this word, chinep bress. For
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now expelled and now set up kings, often the same persons, but sometimes

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others. For these reasons, Moses
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deemed by the priests worthy to be
honored like a god. Was named Hermes

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because of his interpretation of the hieroglyphics
Moses. Yes, that's what I was

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trying to say. Some attributed Hermistru's
majus to being Moses, some attributed him

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to being Enoch. The point is
we have writings from thousands of years ago

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saying it was a real person.
Who was he? Yeah, right,

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yeah, talking about the legendary origin, which is, you know, he

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came from this vault and had these
tablets, the Emerald Tablets of thought,

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which there are real texts, and
had knowledge of the seven sciences and distributed

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this information to humanity and lifted the
consciousness, you know, created mathematics and

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music and poetry and all of these
different liberal arts. Who could call them

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agriculture, war, metallurgy, theurgy, astrology, magic, all of it,

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distributed all of this knowledge to mankind. That's the legendary version, you

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know. But anyway, so isn't
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me justis and thought? Yes,
thought among some that they're the same.

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That's actually what I was about to
get into next. He's considered so like

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the word hermistriz megistus is a translation
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and that word comes from the idea
that in the time that this knowledge of

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Hermestris magistus was being spread, it
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where we're around the first century,
where like Greek was influencing Egypt philosophically,

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mathematically, and you had all these
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Alexandria, and you know, I
can't name them all off the top of

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my head. But the cultures were
intermingling. And as these cultures were mixing

406
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.799
and they were sharing ideas with one
another, they began to notice that the

407
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:56.359
Greek god Hermes was very similar to
the Egyptian god. Thought thought was this

408
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:02.920
ibis headed figure who was depicted with
a tablet in a quill. And he's

409
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:08.559
like the scribe of the gods.
He's also created language, magic, music,

410
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.160
knowledge, mysteries, the occult,
the esoteric, and he is the

411
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:18.359
translator of the gods and he relays
their messages to mankind and for mankind to

412
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.480
God, which is a parallel to
Enoch describe of the gods, you know,

413
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.039
as we talk about in the Metatron
episode. Same with Hermes, you

414
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:27.960
know, he's a messenger of the
God exactly. It's like the same legend.

415
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.160
Same with Mercury in the Roman culture. Yeah, wait, what isn't

416
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:40.039
there a Hermes mercurious? Yes,
tris same thing, another name, Hermes

417
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:45.680
mercurious, Hermi's mercurious thought. It's
all hard to say, Yeah, Hermi's

418
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.240
mercurious thought. Hermi's tris magist.
Say that eighteen times fast? Eighteen?

419
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:56.000
I mean just throwing imaginary number,
man, Okay, eighteen all right,

420
00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:02.079
cool? I mean why not three
times fast? I'm just saying, well,

421
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.880
eighteen seems like a lot. Raise
it up there, you know,

422
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:11.640
raise it up there twenty times fast? Hem that was actually eighty times.

423
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:21.039
How'd you do that? The occult? Okay, occult magic yeah, I

424
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:26.559
have this higher knowledge sick. So
reading from my notes here, I know.

425
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.640
I know tris Magicist means Thrice's greatest, indicating his status as a divine

426
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.319
figure of immense wisdom and knowledge.
He is associated with alchemy, astrology,

427
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.440
and the occult, and his teachings
are believed to have inspired her Meticism,

428
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:45.359
a philosophical philosophical and as a Derek
tradition. In Greek mythology, Hermes is

429
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.279
known as the Messenger. He has
the wings on his feet, symbolizing flight.

430
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.799
He flies between the realms and he
gives the messages and some cartoons of

431
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:59.759
popular culture. He's the to pit. Wow, it's it's another Do we

432
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.079
just recorded an episode? No,
none of this. Yeah, it's Alex.

433
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:07.440
I just can't get my mind off
of Wow, the wrizzler. Dude,

434
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:09.799
he's tripping you up. Yeah,
man, you gotta stop looking at

435
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.160
him. He's tripping me up.
Man. Yeah, you gotta stop looking

436
00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:15.880
tripping me up. Man. And
you know, whenever I'm feeling down,

437
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.079
and I have said this before,
maybe this won't be news to you guys,

438
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.640
but sometimes when I'm feeling down,
I just close my eyes and I

439
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.240
think about him smiling. I don't
think. I don't think you've said that

440
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:30.160
before. I don't I don't remember
you saying that before. Alex looks shocked.

441
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:31.559
I don't think you've said that before. I have. I don't think

442
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:34.599
you've said it out loud. I
know I have. Okay, all right,

443
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:40.680
I know I have. I don't
think. I don't think he said

444
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.200
that. He meditates about you.
So we have some one's got to do

445
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.200
it. Yeah, yeah, I
mean why not, man, Someone's got

446
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:57.519
to carry the torch, you know, like Alice with the weight of the

447
00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:04.119
world on my shoulders. Oh,
I'm like Prometheus bringing the flame. I'm

448
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.680
telling you, right, And it's
like the flame is Alex's smile in my

449
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:14.200
mind. Yeah, but cool.
Yeah. So we have the Corpus Hermaticum,

450
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:20.400
which are like the legitimate historical texts
that have surfaced in the medieval era

451
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:24.119
all the way back to like the
first century, that are like the hermatic

452
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:29.720
body of knowledge containing philosophy mini books. Yeah, it's about eighteen books.

453
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.440
That's where eighteen came from. Yeah, I guess, so I'm catching up.

454
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.279
I'm catching up. Let's look it
up. Man. I'm pretty sure

455
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:42.079
it's eighteen books. It has to
be otherwise that number. It was just

456
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:49.279
too arbitrary that you told me to
repeat it eighteen times, too specific.

457
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:53.759
And then I ask you how many
books there are and you say eighteen.

458
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:59.400
Oh wow, this says they're seventeen. I swear I saw today there was

459
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:04.519
eighteen. Well now there's eighteen.
Yeah, yeah, okay, there's eighteen.

460
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.719
Bro So anyway, So we have
the Corpus her Medicum, which contains

461
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:13.880
the works like the Divine Piemander also
known as Poimendres and the Greek the Greek

462
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.760
language. It was written in Greek. We have the Emerald Tablets of Thought,

463
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.320
which have been translated by some pretty
impressive historical figures like Isaac Newton Helena

464
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:30.079
Blovotsky. I forgot to mention,
but her Meticism has basically influenced every major

465
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:38.559
esoteric society Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Renaissance era magic, alchemy, Kabbalah,

466
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:44.719
Gnosticism, Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn. That one was a head

467
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:53.639
scratcher, right, what you just
what did I do? You're never meditated

468
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:57.760
about me? Smiling? Well,
that's because I meditate about different things with

469
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.800
you. Oh okay, we don't
have to get and and your reaction there

470
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:06.199
caught me off guard. Okay,
I'm allowed to be surprised. I'm allowed

471
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:12.880
it all and most of all theosophy, right think you said it already,

472
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:19.639
but yeah did I? Oh it's
okay, So the most important anyway,

473
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:29.360
So why are you laughing now?
Oh my god, Oh my god.

474
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:35.360
Oh so it's influenced all this shit. Yeah, okay, that's where as

475
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.239
above, so below comes from the
concept that you know, the thing,

476
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:45.440
it's a hermetic thing. Her Menicism
influenced the Gnostics. Her Medicism is older

477
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.480
than the Gnostics. Oh okay,
I'm tripping. And then you know,

478
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.400
you have the key difference there where
the Gnostics are like, the world is

479
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:57.039
a prison, it's a trap.
You know, the material world is literally

480
00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.320
the devil, and you know,
the soul is born here. It's hell,

481
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.760
it's a nightmare. Your flesh is
imprisoned in this eternal suffering and the

482
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:08.320
only thing you can do is reach
this nosis, this inner illumination where you

483
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:15.320
can free yourself from you know,
the mortal coil of prison being born here.

484
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.639
And then the opposite perspective, her
medicism is like, no, actually,

485
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:28.800
the entire universe is a complete harmonious
unity, and everything in existence emanates

486
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:36.000
from one transcendent mind or the Greek
word noose in o us, which they

487
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:42.159
don't really have like a legitimate translation
for, but in this context of esoteric

488
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.719
literature, it over the ages has
come to be understood as the transcendent mind

489
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:49.760
of God. You know, the
news. Everything emanates from the news.

490
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.039
So there's a distinct split between her
meticism and gnosticism, and it's like,

491
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.119
I don't know, I think elements
of both are true, you know.

492
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.199
And then there is a distinction to
be made that in some of the Hermetic

493
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:05.840
writings, that viewpoint is taken where
it's like, no, actually a mature

494
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:12.360
world is evil, right, you
know. So scholars believe that this little

495
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:17.960
set of contradictions and the Hermetic texts
stem from the concept that as the initiates

496
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.519
of the past, because you know, this was secret knowledge, right,

497
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:27.400
this was very highly guarded secret knowledge, and it was taught to initiates.

498
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:34.400
They had symbolic rituals and ceremonies to
I guess like reach the next level of

499
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:39.639
consciousness where the Master would deem them
worthy to receive the next level of texts.

500
00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:45.280
And it's believed that these contradictions are
presented. You know, you have

501
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.599
this perspective when you're at this level
of initiation, when your mind is on

502
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:53.599
this level, and then when you
go through the purification process where as they

503
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:58.599
would say alchemy, the transmutation of
the soul, and you reach higher states

504
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:04.400
of consciousness and you know, are
are a better person. You're you're seeking

505
00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:07.920
more unity with the spirit and understanding
and craving the knowledge. Then they say,

506
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:09.920
Okay, now we're gonna shape the
real Yeah, yeah, you know

507
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.119
what I mean to give it to
you as you quote unquote earn it right

508
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.760
kind of thing. So it sounds
like her Meticism was like the og like

509
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.760
secret society. It was kind yeah, And like I don't have the book

510
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:24.920
on me at the moment because we
literally just moved and my house is like

511
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:30.239
a million boxes. But I have
isis unveiled, which is which is literally

512
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.840
you know, it's Heleno. Bovotsky
is like the main books of theosophy,

513
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.760
and I have not read them like
thousands of pages, but I have them,

514
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:39.880
and I've flipped through them and I've
and I've you know, gone through

515
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:44.239
them and looked at interesting quotes and
parts and things. And when you open

516
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:46.280
the book. One of the very
first quotes from Helena Blovotsky herself is about

517
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:51.800
her meticism. I could probably google
it or Alex if you wouldn't mind google

518
00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:55.920
like Heleno Blovotsky quote on her meticism, but she basically says, like her

519
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.320
meticism is the key to opening all
of this knowledge, Like all of these

520
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.719
great schools of knowledge are telling you
like her medicism is the key. They

521
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.800
all point to her medicism like the
original source, Yes for this knowledge,

522
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:15.559
Freemasons, Rosicrucians, all of them. I was listening to shadowt Isaac Weishaalt.

523
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:19.239
Yeah, he changed the name of
his show. I think it's now

524
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.679
known as occult symbolism in pop culture. Used it used to be conspiracy theories

525
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:28.199
in popcorns, right, yes,
occult symbolism and pop culture. He does

526
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:31.239
a great deep dive into esoteric stuff
and and actually something that he does that

527
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:35.800
I really appreciate and most people don't
do, at least in the you know,

528
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.800
the podcast scene, as he goes
into first hand texts. I love

529
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.800
that. I love that, And
you know, if you listen to his

530
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:47.000
show, he's very often reading from
you know, firsthand sources, and I

531
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:50.360
think that's very important. If you're
trying to learn about something, go and

532
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:55.679
read some of the firsthand knowledge.
And he had a freemason on his show

533
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.920
several times, actually, a really
interesting dude named It's Something Sullivan. I

534
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.119
can't I think it's James Sullivan the
fourth. I can't remember his name,

535
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:08.239
but it's Something Sullivan the fourth,
and he's like a thirty second degree Freemason,

536
00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:12.320
and he would have him on and
he would pick his brain like about

537
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.960
freemasonry, the symbolism, and he
wrote these books called Cinema Symbolism and it's

538
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.000
some of the stuff that we talk
about, like the occult and esoteric symbolism

539
00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:23.800
at movies. Robert Sullivan, Robert
Sullivan, Yes, yep, Robert Sullivan

540
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.880
the fourth. Very interesting guy,
dude. Yeah, Robert Sullivan and cinema

541
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.079
symbolism. Yeah, that's cool.
And he has him on his show multiple

542
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.440
times and they do like in depth
breakdowns of his book and they do like

543
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.199
The Shining, they do Aronofsky.
Yeah, so many movies. He breaks

544
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.280
down and he's telling you, like
the Masonic and esoteric symbolism, and it's

545
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:49.239
like, oh my god, this
is mind blowing stuff. And honestly,

546
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.360
his show is largely the reason why
I'm so interested in that and why it's

547
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.440
so fascinating. But anyway, when
when Robert Sullivan the fourth was on there

548
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.239
and he's talking openly about Masonic symbolism, one of the things he said that

549
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.000
let me know I was on the
right path was he talked about Hermes Trus

550
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.599
Magistus and he told the legend of
it about how it was taught in free

551
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.360
Masonic temples that he went and the
legend goes, you know, he went

552
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:16.039
into this subterranean vault and then he
comes out and he has these tablets,

553
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:20.079
the Emerald tablets, and he dispenses
the knowledge to mankind. He goes under

554
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.199
he's enlightened, and then he comes
out and he has this knowledge. Sounds

555
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.400
like Jesus right, he's crucified on
the cross. If you're a Catholic.

556
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:29.679
The doctrine goes, he descended into
hell for three days and then he comes

557
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:31.519
out boom. He's transfigured. He's
a like being, he's illuminated, he's

558
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:37.440
reached enlightenment and he's the awakened Christ. And he teaches all these mysteries for

559
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.679
forty days and then he disappears,
and then ten days later, the Pentecost

560
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:43.159
happens. You all know the story. You've all read the Bible, right,

561
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.719
you've all been a church. Who
else does sound like Orpheus? He

562
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.679
descends into hell for underworld? Yeah, he descends into There's always this theme.

563
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.239
We talked about this in the Godzilla
episode where there's these resonant themes in

564
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:58.880
these stories that speaked our soul.
But in ancient times they would have this

565
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:04.360
hero' journey where they would send into
the underworld, either literally or figuratively,

566
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:07.679
and then they would come out and
they would be enlightened and they would be

567
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:13.360
you know, awakened or whatever.
So yeah, so they all point towards

568
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:17.159
her Meticism as being like the og
It's, yes, the source. So

569
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.079
now I want to talk about the
cosmology. What does it actually teach?

570
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:23.480
Like, what is it actually about? You know, we can talk all

571
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:27.679
day about like why it's genuine,
why it exists, why it's historical.

572
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:30.960
We can talk about, like,
you know, references in ancient writings like

573
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:37.599
Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, Saint
Augustine, all these different people, but

574
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.679
let's get into the cosmology. So
the Hermetic cosmology offers a profound and comprehensive

575
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.440
view of the universe, blending elements
of ancient philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual

576
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.639
wisdom. It's based on the principle
of unity, the idea that all things

577
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:53.920
are interconnected and part of a single, harmonious whole. There are three great

578
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:59.920
principles, and this overlaps with the
seven laws of the Universe of hermeticism mentalis,

579
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.320
which is the first law and the
first principle. The universe is mental

580
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:07.119
in nature, arising from the divine
mind or the noose. All phenomenon,

581
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:12.559
both material and spiritual, are ultimately
the result of mental processes. This principle

582
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:17.519
emphasizes the creative power of thought and
consciousness in shaping reality. Correspondence as above,

583
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.119
so below, as below, so
above, and then I think the

584
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:28.400
saying goes, there's as within,
so without right. This principle suggests that

585
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.480
there's a correspondence between different levels of
existence, the macrocosm being the universe.

586
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:38.719
The great entire existence of the cosmos
is intimately correspondent with the microcosm or the

587
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:45.400
individual humankind being the mirror image of
God, the highest power Man. I

588
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:50.559
always think about the whole thing with
like you know, zooming in on the

589
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.599
neurons and then it looks just like
constellations in the sky, like there are

590
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.400
constellations, Like I always think about
that, right, like there. You

591
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.920
know, if you've never seen those
like pictures that I'm talking about where they

592
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:07.679
compare like the human brain and like
like neurons and that kind of stuff comparing

593
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:12.880
to nebulas and constellations, you got
to see it. It's it'll blow your

594
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.400
mind. Well, like even in
your eye, the iris of your eye

595
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:19.519
looks like galaxies. I mean,
there's so many examples of this cells in

596
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.360
your body, you know. I
mean it's true. It's like it's twofold.

597
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:24.599
It's like on the one hand,
the macrocosm is God and then the

598
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.800
microcosm is Man, where like it
says in Genesis, you know, we

599
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:31.880
were made in the image of God. Right, That's that's what this is.

600
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.719
But then the other side of that
is like reality is fractal, exactly

601
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:39.400
what you said. You know,
you can zoom all the way up or

602
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:45.559
all the way down and it's entangled. It's it's this infinite spiral mathematical pattern.

603
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:50.199
I was gonna say that Fibonacci sequence, right, you see it everywhere

604
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.440
all across the cosmos, big,
small, it's everywhere. It's a spiral.

605
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:58.280
Yeah. I do suspect that if
we had the technology, if we

606
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:05.920
could like peer deeper down way beneath
Adams even, I think it would probably

607
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:07.800
just keep going. Yeah, I
think, like, honestly, like,

608
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.519
I think it would never stop.
Yeah, yeah, I think I think

609
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:21.360
it's really infinite. It's like the
Grinch. You've got my undivided you know

610
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.840
what I'm talking about today. Zoom
into that snowflake and all the Who's live

611
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.239
on the snowflake? You know what
I'm talking about? Well, that's also

612
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:29.719
Horton, Here's or who is it? Not there? There? They were?

613
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.639
Yeah, that's who will Doctor's onto
something? That's all I'm saying.

614
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:37.559
Yeah, oh man, that is
a cinematic universe. Yea. The next

615
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:43.519
game is gonna be uh Marvel versus
the SEUs Verse. D I'm thinking thing

616
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.679
one thing too all day? Dude. Oh yeah, dude, the sous

617
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.679
Verse would pack them there, crapping
the Wonder Twins. Brother, they're packing

618
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:52.360
them up. Yeah? Yeah,
is this a cat in the hat?

619
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.440
What? I hadn't seen that movie
since I was like twelve, bro,

620
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.320
the one with Mike Myers yeah,
so good, bro, I swear man

621
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:07.280
like if you pit the Grinch in
the Hulk. Okay, I feel like

622
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.519
the Grinch would fade him. We're
not talking. Continue with Oh you're on

623
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.079
the marvel side. Yeah, I
tend to agree. I think that the

624
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:20.559
Grinch is almighty, almighty, almighty, all powerful. I don't care the

625
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:27.480
Grinch is her. The Grinch is
my preferred green Man. Wow. Okay,

626
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.280
we't get him a Grinch suit.
I don't know who mine is.

627
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.039
We're talking green Man fighting bracket.
I'm taking Grinch to the end. I

628
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:38.960
do like Yoda. I like Yoda. Good point. Vibration. Everything in

629
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:43.840
the universe is a state of constant
motion and vibration. These vibrations manifested different

630
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:47.280
frequencies, giving rise to the diversity
of phenomenon in the cosmos. By understanding

631
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:52.719
and harmonizing with these vibrations, individuals
can influence their own reality. Just want

632
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.880
to say, that is an ancient, ancient text that's describing that. In

633
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:05.159
modern times, science fully corroborates that
right fully. I think they call it

634
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:08.079
the Brownian movement, the Brownian movement. Everything vibrates, everything, everything,

635
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:14.000
everything. They were talking about it
thousands upon thousands of years ago. How

636
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.519
could they have known? How could
they have known? Osis? Yeah,

637
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:22.840
spiritual revelation man there. Yeah,
or you know, this is something I

638
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:27.119
haven't even touched on yet. What
it's like really believed where the hermetic knowledge

639
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:31.920
comes from Atlantis? Right, it's
this this great mystery that I hope someday

640
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.880
we really solve and like we learned
without a shadow of a doubt. The

641
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:43.679
legend goes that this knowledge survived the
fall of Atlantis, right yeah, Right,

642
00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:45.800
So that's where the mystery schools come
from. They had it in secret,

643
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:52.360
and they were teaching these seven laws
of the Universe from a time where

644
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:55.239
all knowledge was known, right,
Yeah, we were like at the peak

645
00:47:55.320 --> 00:48:00.480
of existence here in the material realm, and and you know, according to

646
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:05.039
some movements like Theosophy, they believe
that we weren't necessarily all material in the

647
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:09.719
Atlantean times, or like if you
look at Edgar Casey's channeling sessions, he

648
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:13.920
says that we weren't in the material
world at all, but it was more

649
00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:17.880
like a more spiritual existence and the
fall from Atlantis was our fall into material

650
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.119
reality. I don't know, we
can't know, you know, but the

651
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.239
idea that there was some sort of
precursor existence to the state we're in now,

652
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.480
and the Hermetic knowledge and all of
these esoteric schools that are copying the

653
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.360
Hermetic knowledge and expanding on it in
their own cultural lenses and agendas and whatnot,

654
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.679
are basically guarding you know, this
lost Atlantian knowledge, so very fascinating

655
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:45.119
stuff. Yeah, how could they
know it makes sense? Yeah right,

656
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.159
it's bizarre, like all we know
is what's going on right now and the

657
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.039
life that we've lived right now,
Like this, the science that can corroborate

658
00:48:54.480 --> 00:49:00.679
the fact that the entire universe is
vibration is as a very recent development,

659
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:04.239
very hundred and fifty years or less. Yeah, I don't know, in

660
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:09.880
the past hundred years, Like we
can't have known that stuff thousands upon thousands

661
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:15.639
of years ago. And to go
even more into like why that is like

662
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:20.079
so profoundly true. There are other
cultures that figured it out spiritually, you

663
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.840
could say, as well, like
the Dogon tribe, Hinduism. You know,

664
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:28.880
they all have their different conceptions,
you know, ideas about the universe

665
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:35.039
being vibrations, and it's inherently true. It's just it blows my mind,

666
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:43.039
like how you know it's divine it's
it's divine, like that knowledge came from

667
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:47.079
somewhere, It was passed into the
minds of humanity from somewhere. Yeah,

668
00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:51.719
it's like, was it revealed to
people who reached high enough states of conscience

669
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:57.559
to receive a transmission or was it
like the legendary depiction that it was secretly

670
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:01.760
guarded knowledge literally passed down, right, Yeah, or maybe both. I

671
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:05.000
don't know. I wish I did. We can't know. I really wish

672
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:08.000
I knew, But the fact remains
the knowledge was there and it's proven now.

673
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:15.480
Yeah, pretty fricking weird. Like
I genuinely one hundred percent believe in

674
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:17.960
the hermetic knowledge. Like I'm at
the point now where I don't need to

675
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:22.639
be like served proof on a platter. I feel like I'm at the point

676
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:29.559
in my life where it's like,
look, I cannot understand everything that exists,

677
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:34.960
and there are things beyond my conception
and things that are ineffable, and

678
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:39.440
there are some things that are inherently
true and it's up to us to accept,

679
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.880
you know, like there are just
some things that we just cannot prove.

680
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.519
And I think that's part of the
human experience is to humble faith.

681
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:52.519
Right, It's like the act of
humbling yourself to receive higher knowledge that you

682
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:54.960
cannot comprehend. It is kind of
like faith, you know. Yeah.

683
00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:02.239
But continuing on with the cosmology,
there are seven planes of distance. The

684
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:07.159
physical plane the realm of material existence, where physical bodies and tangible objects exist.

685
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:12.320
The astral plane the realm of emotions, desires, and psychic phenomenon.

686
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.880
It is often described as a realm
of energy and oh shoot, I'm sorry,

687
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:21.480
I hit a button and I lost
my spid. Often described as a

688
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:24.440
realm of energy and fluidity, where
thoughts and emotions have a tangible presence.

689
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:30.480
The mental plane the realm of thoughts, ideas, and mental constructs. It's

690
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.119
the domain of the divine mind,
or the noose, where the seeds of

691
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.800
creation are planted. The causal plane
or the karmic plane, the realm of

692
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.360
causes and origins, where the blueprint
for existence is laid out. It is

693
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:46.159
the realm of divine intelligence and the
source of all creation. The spiritual plane,

694
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.920
the realm of pure spirit, transcending
all forms and limitations. It's the

695
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:54.039
realm of unity and oneness, where
individual identities dissolve into the cosmic whole.

696
00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.800
The divine plane the realm of the
divine, beyond human comprehension. It's the

697
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:04.000
ultimate source of all existence, the
ineffable one from which all things emanate.

698
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.679
And then you have the absolute,
the highest, most transcendent level of reality,

699
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:13.159
beyond all duality and different differentiation.
It's the realm of pure being,

700
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:17.039
beyond the reach of human understanding or
comprehension. There is the concept of the

701
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:27.320
cosmic drama happening throughout the universe.
The hermetic cosmological system usually portrays the universe

702
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.880
as a grand drama with divine beings, cosmic cycles, and spiritual evolution of

703
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:36.960
mankind. Humanity plays a central role
throughout the universe in this cosmic drama as

704
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.039
agents of divine will and participants in
the ongoing process of creation and transformation.

705
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:46.400
It is an eternal process beyond death, the alchemical process. A central theme

706
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:54.079
is that we experience alchemical transformation inwardly
and outwardly. This process involves the purification

707
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:59.239
and refinement of the soul, the
transmutation of base substances into higher forms,

708
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:02.559
and the atament of spiritual enlightenment.
It is through this process that individuals can

709
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:07.239
ascend through the various planes of existence
and ultimately reunite with the divine source.

710
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:13.960
Note I've said this before, but
I remember being in eleventh grade chemistry and

711
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:21.000
day one there was a PowerPoint slide
and it was about the origins of chemistry,

712
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:24.239
and I remember it being about alchemy, and it was like, dude,

713
00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:30.119
literally a grays Creek high school version
of alchemy one paragraph. And it

714
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:34.599
was like back in you know,
the Renaissance era, they had primitive scientific

715
00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:37.719
knowledge and they tried to make potions
to turn bars of lead into bars of

716
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.239
gold. Right, yeah, you
know, it's like, oh, they

717
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:46.360
were idiots. They were fucking idiots. That's what I thought, right,

718
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:52.199
yeah, sixteen year old me.
But then you read into like the legitimate

719
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.920
alchemical first hand sources, because again
I want to encourage people to look into

720
00:53:55.920 --> 00:53:59.320
these first hand sources. If you're
interested in this knowledge, you can read

721
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:06.440
the works of Paris Celsus, who
is probably the most prominent alchemical writer probably

722
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:08.440
in all of history. Not hermetic
sources, but like alchemical sources. You

723
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:13.480
know, Paris Celsus. No,
no, it's one word about like Paracelsus

724
00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:19.760
Celsius. I'll look it up.
Some of these Greek words be hard from

725
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:27.679
you, bro, Paris. Yeah, Paracelsus. Paracelsus. Oh, he's

726
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:34.119
actually Swiss. Cool I thought that
was a Greek word anyway. So he

727
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:39.280
has these writings where he, like
literally in the Renaissance era, is describing

728
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:43.519
to you the metaphor of alchemy,
and he says something to the effect of,

729
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:47.280
like, you know, alchemy is
not mixing potions and turning lead into

730
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:52.239
gold, but it is the allegory
for the transformational process of the soul,

731
00:54:52.559 --> 00:55:00.199
whereas the human is the lead being
in your crude, original incarnated state and

732
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:05.920
through you know, the fire of
Azous, you know, the Holy fire,

733
00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:12.320
whatever the divine forces, you know, basically putting you through the fucking

734
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.320
ringer, Yeah, to purify your
soul into gold. Right. It's a

735
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:21.199
metaphor, right right. It's not
a bunch of idiots make empotions, right,

736
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.719
Yeah, it's an advanced body of
spiritual knowledge, yeah, right,

737
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:30.280
with the goal of reaching enlightenment.
Yes, it comes from Hermeticism. Right.

738
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.000
In the Renaissance era fourteen hundred and
fifteen hundreds, there was this resurgence

739
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.360
of the Hermetic knowledge throughout medieval Europe. So they had these alchemists who were

740
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.559
writing, you know, they had
all these secret al chemical symbols, and

741
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:44.639
there's this belief that they had this
secret twilight language where they were like encoding

742
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:50.400
this stuff behind symbols, you know, to pass to other initiates in other

743
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.400
mystery schools, you know. So
the the the profane like us, who

744
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:58.000
aren't initiated, you know, might
not understand if they came across their writings,

745
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.599
but it was. It was a
very intricate system of refining the soul

746
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:07.840
and raising your levels of consciousness.
That's what alchemy was. So the real

747
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:09.880
alchemy, Yes, the real alchemy, which again was a resurgence of the

748
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:14.920
Hermetic knowledge and medieval Europe. So
now we're going to move on to the

749
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.000
seven Hermetic laws. The first three
of these we already covered, but it

750
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:21.960
was the principle of mentalism. The
whole universe is the mind. It emanates

751
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.320
from the mind of God. Everything
that exists, from the smallest particle to

752
00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:30.360
the vast cosmos, is the result
of mental processes. The mind, the

753
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:34.679
mind of God, is the primary
creative force behind every manifestation, every emanation,

754
00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:39.079
everything in existence. This principle underscores
the power of consciousness and its role

755
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:45.280
in literally shaping reality. Right number
two correspondence as above, so below.

756
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:50.639
The highest level of reality is intimately
entangled with even the lowest level of reality.

757
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.199
Mankind is made in the image of
God. To understand the higher spiritual

758
00:56:54.239 --> 00:57:00.039
world, we have to look within
ourselves and understand that we we're fractals of

759
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:05.800
God. We have the spark,
right. I mean, I can only

760
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:07.280
say it in so many different ways. But you know, as above,

761
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:13.559
so below, or as Jesus said
in the Gospels, my Father, who

762
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:22.480
are in heaven, hollow be thy
name, will be done on earth as

763
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:27.320
it is in heaven, above so
below. Dang, I was wondering where

764
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.079
you're going with that. As your
will takes place in heaven, man also

765
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:34.280
take place on earth as above,
so below right. It is believed in

766
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:38.280
the esoteric circles that that is knowledge, like secret knowledge, that he was

767
00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:43.239
dispensing to the masses right in the
Lord's Prayer. It's also believed that the

768
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:51.400
Lord's Prayer contains basically like references to
the seven Chakras. But that's another conversation.

769
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:57.039
Principle of vibration, everything is constance, static vibration, thoughts, or

770
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:01.639
vibration. There's an old Rosicrucian manual
that I came across somewhere that says something

771
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:06.400
to the effect of thoughts have wings. You imagine your thoughts of wings and

772
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:08.639
they're flying throughout the universe. They
have vibrations, and they have an effect

773
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:15.840
on physical reality. But now we're
moving on to the fourth one, which

774
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:19.840
we haven't covered. Principle of polarity. All things have opposites or polarity,

775
00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:22.440
such as hot and cold, light
and dark, love and fear. These

776
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.920
polarities are complementary aspects of the same
phenomenon, and they are necessary for the

777
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:31.719
balance and harmony of the universe.
By transcending duality and embracing unity, Everything

778
00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:38.599
is one. God is the one, right, all is one. Individuals

779
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:45.480
can navigate the fluctuations of life with
greater equanimity. Whatever the fuck that means,

780
00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:52.320
I'm just giving it real. It
means like an anonymous horse, I

781
00:58:52.440 --> 00:59:00.599
think, yeah, like equestrian.
Yeah, yeah, no, I believe

782
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:04.920
you. Mental calmness and composure.
Well that works too, Yeah, I

783
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:10.519
guess it doesn't make me think of
a horse. But whatever, equanimity Okay,

784
00:59:10.519 --> 00:59:14.440
I learned a new word today.
The principle of rhythm. Everything in

785
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:17.880
the universe operates according to cycles rhythms
and patterns, these rhythms, that's what

786
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:25.719
I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Hey, these rhythms can earn the

787
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:28.559
ebb and the flow of life,
from the season of the year to the

788
00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:30.840
cycles of birth, growth, the
k and renewal. Everything is a cosmic

789
00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:35.119
swing of a pendulum. Right.
So we're in the dark ages now,

790
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.840
and it's gonna be because the Age
of Aquarius. We're gonna have that cosmic

791
00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.599
swing back to the age of light
and then you know, maybe thousands of

792
00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:44.639
years from now, there will be
another swing back to the dark. It's

793
00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:50.920
just how reality operates. It's a
giant universal rhythm. Yeah, it's it's

794
00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:55.239
it's like described as literally a pendulum, you know. And it says that

795
00:59:57.079 --> 00:59:59.920
the equal measure that it swings to
the left, it will return to the

796
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:04.400
right in vice. Yes, yes, but you could apply that to your

797
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:07.880
life and all the bad that you've
experienced, as bad as it can get,

798
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.920
the trauma, the brutal suffering that
we can experience in this life,

799
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:16.480
it can swing back and you can
experience higher levels of good and joy and

800
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:22.760
you know, peace and happiness.
And I have found that to be true.

801
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:24.480
I mean it's like, my dad
has spoken to thousands of people throughout

802
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:29.159
the last seventeen years dealing with this
phenomenon stuff, and ninety nine percent of

803
01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:34.840
people who have seen the phenomenon have
experienced trauma and suffering, and they've been

804
01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:39.800
at such a broken point in their
life and their will has been crushed that

805
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:44.599
they're ready for the good to come
in. They're ready for the light.

806
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:47.400
You know. It's like that always
swings back. Yeah, there's definitely some

807
01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:52.960
sort of correspondence there. Number six, the principle of cause and effect,

808
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.960
also known as karma. Every action
has a corresponding reaction, and every cause

809
01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:00.880
has an effect. The law emphasizes
the interconnectedness of all events. In the

810
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.400
law of karma, the notion that
individuals are responsible for their actions and will

811
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:10.159
inevitably experience the consequences. By understanding
the principle of cause and effect, individuals

812
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:15.039
can have a higher awareness of the
outcome of their actions on other people.

813
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.360
So it's like again, it's like, you shouldn't be a good person,

814
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.639
You shouldn't tried to be christ like
or Buddha like or freaking Yoda like,

815
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.800
because you you know, are gonna
be judged by God. And you know

816
01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:29.760
there's there's an angel up there in
twenty twenty four, because I would imagine

817
01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:31.920
they do update their systems. You
know, they probably don't have filing cabinets

818
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:36.239
anymore. They have a tablet and
they're keeping check of all your sins.

819
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:40.639
I would hope so that they use
like file Explorer or yeah, Microsoft Excel,

820
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.440
if they use CHAGYPT they might.
I don't know, man, I'm

821
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:50.079
just saying like, it's it's not
like you're supposed to be good, because

822
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.920
this is what I feel like,
is the problem with people who are like,

823
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:57.320
I don't know, is got up
there watching the dudas do that.

824
01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.320
It's like, no, you are. You know, sure God is,

825
01:02:00.599 --> 01:02:04.920
but God's not sitting here judging you, sending your ass to hell down the

826
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.880
block, you know what I mean. That's not what it's about. It's

827
01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:15.199
it's about you literally are a vibration
in the universe that is entangled to everything

828
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:17.320
in existence, and every thought you
have, every emotion you have, every

829
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:24.800
word you speak, in action you
commit emanates vibrations into the world around you.

830
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:30.039
It has an effect. It has
an effect everything. Just like that

831
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:35.039
other law. The laws are interchangeable
and they mix and they interplay. You

832
01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:37.239
know, the effect that you put
out into the world, that pendulum is

833
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.639
going to swing back. You know. It's it's it's not because someone up

834
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:44.960
there is like, hmmm, actually
you didn't go to church today. Oh

835
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:49.360
you drink Saturday night? Oh yeah, sorry, you're not making it to

836
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:52.000
heaven this time, buddy. It's
not like that, you know what I

837
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:54.679
mean. It's it's deeper. It's
it's more beautiful, it's more it's more

838
01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:58.880
complicated. It's it's karma. It's
like, it couldn't be that simple.

839
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:04.679
Yeah, you are responsible for your
actions. You are you know, liable

840
01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:10.360
to incur karmic forces upon yourself if
you knowingly and willfully do bad to other

841
01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:14.760
people and harm other beings. And
it might not be like you know,

842
01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:17.280
it gets you now. It might
be you know, twenty years down the

843
01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:22.159
road, could be tomorrow. I
mean, how can we know, right,

844
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.639
there's this grand cosmic scheme that we
can't see. The last law the

845
01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:30.440
principle of gender. Everything in the
universe has masculine and feminine aspects, and

846
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:35.079
these polarities are essential for creation and
manifestation. The masculine principle is active,

847
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:38.360
assertive, and outwardly directed, while
the feminine principle is receptive, nurturing,

848
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:43.960
and really focused. By embracing and
balancing these polarities within oneself, individuals can

849
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:47.800
harness the creative power of the universe
and achieve greater wholeness and integration with oneself.

850
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:52.840
So I think that's pretty self explanatory. You think about nature, it's

851
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:59.079
like even you know, plants and
animals and everything. Dude, even Adams

852
01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:03.280
down to a cell your level.
Everything, Yeah, atomic protons, right,

853
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:09.239
protons. Yeah, I mean,
everything has a polarity and an opposite,

854
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:13.920
And I feel like that one is
just so self explanatory, like chromosomes

855
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:19.880
in DNA. Gender, everything does
everything, all the way to the highest

856
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:26.800
down to the lowest. Everything has
gender. I mean, come on,

857
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:33.400
it's not that hard. It's not
that hard. It's hard, too hard.

858
01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:40.440
So I want to talk about God. There's a few more things that

859
01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:45.760
I want to hit God. In
the hermetic view, the all or the

860
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.199
One, it's like the ultimate source
and and emanation of all things. It's

861
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:57.440
it's the mental phenomenon that exists in
the highest conception of reality. But then

862
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:02.320
it's actually like beyond what you can
even fat it's unknowable through physical experience.

863
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:09.880
It's only knowable through gnosis, through
inner illumination. Right, It's beyond reason,

864
01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:14.800
it's beyond proof, it's beyond objective
science and evidence. It is this

865
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:24.079
ineffable, unknowable reality that completely exists
outside of physical experience. That is Gods.

866
01:05:25.039 --> 01:05:30.360
It's visible, it's invisible. It's
material and immaterial. It's it's the

867
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:35.159
visible and the invisible sun that animates
the entire universe. It's the underlying thread

868
01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:42.159
that unifies everything, even diversity,
it's the complete interconnectedness of everything throughout the

869
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:47.960
entire universe. Transcendence. Oh,
I just covered that, so I'll skip

870
01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:56.159
that one. Unity and multiplicity.
It's a paradox. It's like the ultimate

871
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:59.719
unity, but also we are separate
from God. Being in the material world.

872
01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:03.320
It's like we're connected on the fundamental
level, but also until we reach

873
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:11.119
the inner illumination, we we're separated. There's a barrier. Yeah, there's

874
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.760
a barrier. It's like hot and
cold, light and dark. They both

875
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:16.800
exists on the same spectrum, the
same continuum, but there is something separating

876
01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:21.599
them, but not really right,
right, there's an illusion of separation,

877
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:25.599
right, right, It's an illusion. Yes, we are in the illusion

878
01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:32.679
of separation theurgy. I thought this
was very interesting, and it's a word

879
01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:38.639
I don't see a whole lot.
Her Medicism emphasizes spiritual practice and theurgy as

880
01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:45.519
means of aligning oneself with the divine
and participating in the ongoing process of spiritual

881
01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:54.400
evolution. Through spiritual practice, you
basically attempt to attain nosis or direct knowledge

882
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:59.920
of the transcendent God, the nature
and the destiny of the human soul.

883
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:01.920
I think this is very important when
talking about a myth or religious system,

884
01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:06.639
you'd say, you know, what
happens after death? What what's what's the

885
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:11.119
grand purpose of the soul and why
it's here. Every system has a different

886
01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.719
philosophy, you know. According to
Genesis, it's like, oh shit,

887
01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:18.800
well your curse because you ate apple, Right, that's it, you d

888
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:24.840
apple, that's it. That's the
whole purpose bad apple. Yeah, that's

889
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.079
the whole purpose they had. The
freaking crab apple was sitting right there and

890
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:32.119
she just couldn't she couldn't resist is
a crab apple? I mean, it

891
01:07:32.239 --> 01:07:39.800
was rotten. It seems pretty reductive
when you think about it, like,

892
01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:45.519
that's the whole purpose of the human
soul is to like like pay penance for

893
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:50.679
this like original sin, that's the
whole purpose. Yeah, it seems really

894
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:55.639
reductive. Yeah, and I am
downplaying, like the whole story, and

895
01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:58.400
there's more truth than that. It's
like, you know, because they disobeyed

896
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:00.039
God. But then it's like,
you know, you get an esoteric view

897
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.559
and it's like the Gnostics are like, hey, that God was actually like

898
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:08.360
trying to enslave you guys, and
that was the demiurge. So it's like,

899
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.320
what is it? You know,
I don't know. Yeah, but

900
01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:15.719
the divine origin. According to her
Meticism, which I wrot with, the

901
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:18.560
human soul is believed to originate from
the divine realm, like we came from

902
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:23.119
there. We're not just born here
and created here. It's not like you're

903
01:08:23.159 --> 01:08:25.600
born and it's like, oh,
a new soul. It's like no,

904
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:30.840
no, you are eternal. You
are an eternal essence that has literally existed

905
01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:36.199
since before space time was even a
continuum, and we were a part of

906
01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:43.079
the original light in the highest transcendent
plane. Right. The divine essence imbused

907
01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:47.039
the soul with inherent divinity and the
potential for spiritual growth. We have a

908
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:53.680
tripartite structure. The human soul is
often described as consisting three main components,

909
01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:56.640
the noose, the spirit, or
the mind, and in her meticism,

910
01:08:56.720 --> 01:09:00.239
spirit and mind are interchangeable. The
mind is the spirit, the highest aspect

911
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:03.880
of the soul, representing the divine
intellect in the wisdom, the psyche,

912
01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:08.720
or the soul. It encompasses your
emotions, desires, personality, trade serving

913
01:09:08.760 --> 01:09:12.640
as the individual's psychological and emotional center. Or the soul of the body,

914
01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.199
the physical vessel through which you know, the soul interacts with the material world.

915
01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:21.840
We're considered immortal, eternal, transcending
the temporal realm of physical existence.

916
01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:28.439
And while the body dies, this
soul forever and ever and beyond ever continues

917
01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:32.439
the journey of illumination way past the
material plane. It's like an ever increase

918
01:09:32.520 --> 01:09:41.760
of enlightenment. It's like the microcosm
macrocosm thing again. Crazy thing, just

919
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.720
a complete tangent that I find very
interesting is this is more or less a

920
01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:54.760
kind of a secretly guarded Mormon doctrine
that is not very commonly known. But

921
01:09:54.840 --> 01:10:00.520
they actually have a principle known as
continual increase. And they say the same

922
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:03.239
thing that I mean, you know, it doesn't stop here, right,

923
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:05.000
Yeah, we don't have to get
in the weeds of it. But it's

924
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:11.399
the climb of the soul or that
it doesn't stop here, it continues even

925
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:18.000
after you transcend into that spirit world, that next place. Also a lot

926
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:23.239
of high level Mormons or Masons mm
hmmm. And you know, you look

927
01:10:23.279 --> 01:10:27.159
in the Mormon Bible and there's Egyptian
hieroglyphs, and they have like Masonic symbols

928
01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.439
and initiations, and that hermetic knowledge
is everywhere. It's everywhere. Yes,

929
01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:33.600
that's my point. I'm not trying
to legitimize Mormonism. I'm just saying it's

930
01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:39.680
everywhere. It has it is.
It's the thing behind the thing, you

931
01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:42.319
know. It's like it's like the
Wizard of Oz. You know, it's

932
01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:46.880
the man behind the curtain. No
one really knows, but it's it's influenced

933
01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:56.640
everything. Spiritual evolution is the destiny
of the soul. Basically, through successful

934
01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:01.680
lifetimes, reincarnation is like a legitimate
part of the doctrine. The soul undergoes

935
01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:08.600
a process of growth, learning and
perifcation, gradually unfolding divine potential and wisdom.

936
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:14.159
Eventually, you reach a point where
I think you essentially like have become

937
01:11:14.239 --> 01:11:18.039
enlightened beyond physical experience, you know, incarnation, and you just keep going,

938
01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:23.920
You keep going into the divine realms
and into the angelic realms and forever

939
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.479
and ever, nosis and enlightenment.
That's the goal, is to continually achieve

940
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:31.279
higher levels of consciousness, attainment of
nosis, direct knowledge of the divine.

941
01:11:31.399 --> 01:11:36.319
It's crucial for the soul's journey,
spiritual practice, contemplation, the pursuit of

942
01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:42.920
wisdom. You're on a journey to
seek to deepen your understanding of the knowledge

943
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.920
of God and the spiritual world,
the nature of the divine, harmony with

944
01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:53.279
the cosmic order. We're intimately connected
to living in harmony with the divine order

945
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:56.760
of the universe, trying to embody
those natural laws within our life, and

946
01:11:57.239 --> 01:12:00.880
you know, using them justly in
the treatment of others. Our aspirations for

947
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:06.680
enlightenment, eternal progression ongoing in eternal
process. I know I already hit on

948
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:12.279
this, but after attaining enlightenment,
the soul continues to evolve and deepen its

949
01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:16.119
connection with the Divine, perpetually expanding
its understanding and consciousness. I think I

950
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:20.880
have like two more things I wanted
to hit on here two and a half,

951
01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:27.279
but the dark force, so I
was like is there a dark force

952
01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:29.840
in Hermeticism? When I say dark
force, I mean like the devil,

953
01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:33.359
you know, Collie whatever. Every
religion has some sort of entity that's like

954
01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:39.800
the King of Hell or you know
whatever, Antichrist. And I was just

955
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.880
like, is there a dark force? What I found was like, no,

956
01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:46.119
not really, not in the hermonic
body of literature. The dark force

957
01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:51.119
is the illusion, It's the ignorance. The dark force is the lack of

958
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:57.319
the knowledge, right, which goes
along with the duality thing, the principle

959
01:12:57.359 --> 01:13:00.399
of duality, because if God is
the knowledge, than the absence of knowledge

960
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:04.000
with the opposite of God, which
would be the quote unquote dark force.

961
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:08.840
I've said this before, but like, I believe that the dark forces,

962
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:13.359
like, I think it's more or
less like an egregor Like I don't think

963
01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:16.840
that there's some like almighty Satan that
exists in hell below. But I think

964
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:21.520
it's like an ancient I mean,
this is going to sound out there,

965
01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:28.680
but not really. I think it's
like an ancient group that is more or

966
01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:38.000
less interfacing with some sort of psychic
egregore that is running things here. I

967
01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:41.479
don't I don't think it's like some
eternal devil that's like destined to fight war

968
01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:44.159
with God. Like I think it's
like people like I think it's it's like

969
01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:48.119
the spirit of the attachment to the
material kind of thing. Yeah, I

970
01:13:48.199 --> 01:13:53.920
mean people that are attached to the
material realm, the people that like run

971
01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:57.000
the world. I mean, you
know, the easiest way to say that

972
01:13:57.119 --> 01:14:00.000
is Illuminati. Right Again, it's
like, we don't really know if that's

973
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:06.199
accurate, but there is a literal
group of people here in power the way

974
01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:11.560
beyond billionaires, there's trillionaire families like
the Rothschilds and all these different people that

975
01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:15.880
have existed for centuries and even millenniums
since the times that Babylon they had like

976
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:20.880
blood letting, magical sacrifice rituals for
power, and you know, even the

977
01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:25.279
Aztecs were ripping people's hearts out under
the eclipses. I mean these these hundreds

978
01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:29.159
yes, yeah, sometimes ten thousand
a day. You know this, this

979
01:14:29.439 --> 01:14:32.920
kind of stuff has existed for thousands
of years, that the powerful classes of

980
01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:38.760
different nations, and I just think
over time it's consolidated to be this secret

981
01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:43.119
global power that is running the world. And I think that's the devil,

982
01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:46.800
right, Like, I think there
are obviously evil spirits. I mean evil

983
01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:50.439
things and evil forces, but it's
not like one unified entity. I think.

984
01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:55.279
I think God is the unified entity, and the evil force is just

985
01:14:55.600 --> 01:15:00.319
it's it's fractured, it's it's hard
to explain. It's you know, I

986
01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:03.279
see it a certain way. But
it's interesting. I like what her meticism

987
01:15:03.359 --> 01:15:05.880
says. It's like, no,
there's not a devil. It's like I

988
01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:10.680
mean, it's you know, it's
like ignorance is the devil. It's like

989
01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:17.560
the dark force is whatever God is
not. It's like wherever God I guess

990
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:25.399
like God in it would technically be
everywhere, but it's like wherever God is

991
01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:31.359
not present, you know what I
mean, Yeah, wherever that spirit is

992
01:15:31.479 --> 01:15:39.920
not being sought after or prioritized.
You know, It's like that would be

993
01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:43.199
the dark Force. When you think
about it from this lens, it makes

994
01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:45.479
sense that they would want to try
to convince us there is no God,

995
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:48.600
there is no spirit. Why they
would want to try to convince us that

996
01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:54.319
all this phenomenon stuff is aliens,
it's monsters, it's reptilians, it's Draco's,

997
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:59.800
it's all this physical mumbo jumbo voodoo
crap from all these other worlds and

998
01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:03.279
they're trying everything that. It's like
the lady said, dark force and power.

999
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:09.199
They're scripting out the Book of Revelations, and uh, there's going to

1000
01:16:09.239 --> 01:16:12.199
be a great deception that there is
no God and its aliens, right,

1001
01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:15.640
you know, it makes sense,
like if what this is saying is true,

1002
01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:18.399
Like you know, if the evil
force of the universe is the ignorance

1003
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:24.000
and giving into the illusion of the
material world and not you know, interfacing

1004
01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:26.640
with the spirit, of course the
people in power wouldn't want us to have

1005
01:16:26.720 --> 01:16:30.720
access to this knowledge. Yeah,
the ones who perpetuate the ignorance are the

1006
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:34.760
dark force, right, Yeah,
totally makes sense. Yeah, I see

1007
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:40.800
that's interesting. Illusion and ignorance clouds
the mind and obstructs one's understanding of the

1008
01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:45.399
spiritual truths. These forces can manifest
as false beliefs, distractions, attachments to

1009
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:49.760
material desires, preventing individuals from realizing
their divine nature and fulfilling their spiritual potential.

1010
01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:57.399
Negative influences. Like there, it
does acknowledge the existence of negative influences

1011
01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:00.359
and energies that can affect individuals on
their spiritual journey. But again, it's

1012
01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:05.439
like not one unified devil, Like
we're told you know. These influences can

1013
01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:11.039
arise from internal sources like egoic tendencies
or negative emotions, as well as external

1014
01:17:11.079 --> 01:17:16.119
factors such as societal conditioning or environmental
stressors, or also the lower self,

1015
01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:21.439
a recognition of the lower self.
It represents the aspects of the individual associated

1016
01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:28.359
with material desires, base instincts,
like animalistic urges. You know that they're

1017
01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:34.039
really dark, low vibrational thoughts that
exist deep within the I guess the dark

1018
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:41.640
parts of the psyche. Everybody has
this within them. Nobody is it's human

1019
01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:47.159
nature. Yeah, I mean they
told us in Turning Red bro it is.

1020
01:17:47.239 --> 01:17:50.279
But that's the whole point of the
movie. It's like integrating with your

1021
01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:57.399
shadow, right, I mean it's
it's really esoteric but serious though. Really

1022
01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.800
the point of the movie. We
all have a shadow side. Even Young

1023
01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:02.399
said it, we all have a
shadow, you know, we talk about

1024
01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:06.560
shadow work. It's like, how
are you interacting with it? You know,

1025
01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:10.880
are you letting it consume you?
Or are you like shaking its hand

1026
01:18:10.920 --> 01:18:14.399
and being like, I understand you
are a natural part of my existence and

1027
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:17.479
you are here for me to learn
down with my demons. Yeah, that

1028
01:18:17.640 --> 01:18:23.199
is literally they're literally shaking hands.
Wow, it's a human hand and a

1029
01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:28.000
demon hand shaking hands. Yeah,
I mean not just saying, dude,

1030
01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:35.319
interveying discord the presence of entropy,
which basically is like chaos, or discord

1031
01:18:35.399 --> 01:18:42.119
is chaos, which can manifest as
disharmony. It's not inherently malevolent, but

1032
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:45.399
they can disrupt the natural order and
impeed the soul's evolution towards higher states of

1033
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:48.319
consciousness. Okay, the last main
thing that I wanted to talk about was

1034
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:54.439
entities and how they exist within the
framework of Hermetic thought. Angels in her

1035
01:18:54.520 --> 01:19:00.279
Meticism Sism are sometimes described as celestial
beings or messengers of divine wisdom, seen

1036
01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:03.279
as emanations of divine attributes or principles, serving as guides or intermediaries between the

1037
01:19:03.359 --> 01:19:08.159
divine realm and humanity. While not
always depicted in the same way as Judeo

1038
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:15.239
Christian traditions, angels and Hermeticism embody
spiritual qualities assisting individuals on their journey of

1039
01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:20.239
evolution. Spirits, spiritual entities,
or forces that permeate the universe exist in

1040
01:19:20.319 --> 01:19:25.840
Hermetic thought. They could be associated
with various aspects of nature, like elemental

1041
01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:31.520
spirits, planetary intelligences, logos,
They're often seen as expressions of cosmic principles

1042
01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:36.399
or archetypal energies, influencing the natural
world and human consciousness. The beings did

1043
01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:43.119
tell my dad that there are elementals. Sometimes he sees these orbs that look

1044
01:19:43.199 --> 01:19:45.840
like a little fire and he calls
him a flame. He says, they're

1045
01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:50.960
like elementals, light beings. This
was a key for me because years ago

1046
01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:54.359
I read a hermetic text. I
can't remember which one it was. Maybe

1047
01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:56.840
it was the Kybalian, which I
have not even referenced yet, and we're

1048
01:19:56.840 --> 01:20:00.439
in hour nineteen minutes and that's a
shame, And I think it was in

1049
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:04.520
the kai Balian. It talks about
evolving to higher levels of existence, to

1050
01:20:04.720 --> 01:20:08.079
becoming a light being. I don't
know, but that's where I got the

1051
01:20:08.159 --> 01:20:11.479
word. It's from Hermeticism. That's
why I started. You know. It's

1052
01:20:11.520 --> 01:20:14.239
like when all this stuff started,
Dad never called these beings light beings,

1053
01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:17.880
right, Yeah. I came up
with that nice and it's like it's obvious,

1054
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:19.359
you know. It's like, if
you think about it, there are

1055
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:21.720
beings of light. They're balls of
light. Their orbs just shine like a

1056
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:25.520
lights, Like anybody could have came
up with that, but I thought really

1057
01:20:25.600 --> 01:20:28.479
hard about this for years. It's
like, I can't call an angel.

1058
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:30.760
I mean I do, but you
know not most of the time because people

1059
01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:36.119
get offended. They're not aliens.
What are they? Beings of light?

1060
01:20:36.239 --> 01:20:40.640
Beings of light. Yeah, it's
like it's universal. It's just a universal

1061
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:44.279
truth. I mean, you know, angels are beings of light. Yeah,

1062
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:47.760
why not? You know, Jedi
are beings of light. It's a

1063
01:20:47.840 --> 01:20:54.600
concept that exists universally. So I
learned about that from a Hermetic text.

1064
01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:00.079
They're luminous entities that embody, divine
wisdom and illuminate. These beings are often

1065
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:04.880
symbolic representations of spiritual enlightenment and the
attainment of higher consciousness. They can guide

1066
01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:12.520
individuals towards awakening and transformation life after
death, the journey of the soul beyond

1067
01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:17.479
the physical realm, and the continuation
of illumination after death. The immortality of

1068
01:21:17.560 --> 01:21:24.279
the soul, according to Hermetic thought, teaches that the soul is eternal.

1069
01:21:24.399 --> 01:21:28.880
It transcends the limitations of the physical
body. While the body perishes, the

1070
01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:33.960
soul persists beyond death, continuing its
experience and the spiritual realm forever past the

1071
01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:40.359
need for material incarnation spiritual evolution.
After death, it undergoes a process of

1072
01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:45.159
purification and evolution. This is important. I really wanted to talk about this.

1073
01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:51.239
It may experience a period of reflection
and review where it assesses its actions

1074
01:21:51.279 --> 01:21:58.319
and experiences from its earthly life.
This process is believed to contribute to the

1075
01:21:58.399 --> 01:22:01.239
soul's growth and progression towards higher states
of consciousness. So think about it.

1076
01:22:01.279 --> 01:22:04.319
If you're an evil person, right, I believe that there are people out

1077
01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:10.359
there in the world who may be
narcissists or psychopaths or just completely crazy,

1078
01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:18.199
negative, hateful, awful people.
And these people, I believe do harmful,

1079
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:23.119
malicious things to others. And I
don't think they're like, you know,

1080
01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:27.039
they're crazy behind the eyes, like
they don't see the harm that they

1081
01:22:27.119 --> 01:22:30.359
do. Oh yeah, they're oblivious
to it. Could you imagine the horror

1082
01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:36.640
that they feel when they die and
they see the review of what they've done,

1083
01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:40.560
you know what I mean? Think
about it, Think about why that's

1084
01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:45.319
necessary for the soul. You've lived
your whole life and been a delusional denial

1085
01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:48.079
that you're not harming people, that
you're not doing terrible, negative things to

1086
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:53.720
people, you know, serving yourself
your base instincts to cheat and to steal

1087
01:22:53.800 --> 01:22:57.600
and to step over others for that
promotion at that job, or cheat on

1088
01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:02.319
your spouse or you know whatever.
The old rob kill. They don't think

1089
01:23:02.319 --> 01:23:05.359
they're doing wrong. Yeah, otherwise
they're why are they doing it? And

1090
01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:10.840
then in that moment they realize everything
they've ever done is wrong. Yeah,

1091
01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:15.840
and then they die and they're like, oh my god, they're seeing everything

1092
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:19.479
they've ever done, you know,
I mean, think about it. It's

1093
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:25.680
necessary for the soul. Dude.
It's like DMT bro. I wanted to

1094
01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.800
talk about that because it's like the
Barto loop, and it's like in Tibetan

1095
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:33.239
Buddhism they or maybe it's a Tibetan
Book of the Dead they talk about that

1096
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:38.119
where it's like you die and you
like review your life or people always say

1097
01:23:38.159 --> 01:23:41.640
my life flashed before my eyes.
Well, and also in Christianity, it's

1098
01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:45.560
like when you face God after death
at the gates, he shows you everything

1099
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.920
you ever did. He flips the
pages and tells you everything you ever did

1100
01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:53.159
wrong on his tablet, right on
his iPad. Yeah, he flips through.

1101
01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:57.880
He asks chat GPT to explain it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

1102
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.600
I'm just saying, man, I
think that's a very fascinating concept. I've

1103
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:03.399
always believed it to be true,
but to see that it was like mentioned

1104
01:24:03.439 --> 01:24:06.039
in the hermetic text, I'm like, Okay, there's got to be something

1105
01:24:06.119 --> 01:24:09.439
to this. Yeah, it makes
sense for the progression of the soul,

1106
01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:13.439
Like how could you know, how
could you learn from what you've done wrong?

1107
01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:15.000
If you you know, there's just
some people that get away with bad

1108
01:24:15.039 --> 01:24:19.479
stuff their whole life, and you
know, it's like it's the whole principle

1109
01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:25.960
of reincarnation. Like, if the
whole principle is that, like each lifetime

1110
01:24:26.039 --> 01:24:30.880
you learn new lessons, how does
you and your soul apparently either improves or

1111
01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:35.520
whatever. It's like, how would
your soul even know what it needs to

1112
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:41.000
improve upon or what it did right? Or how would it even carry that

1113
01:24:41.199 --> 01:24:44.960
momentum into the next lifetime right if
it didn't have a moment of reflection?

1114
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:48.119
Yeah, yeah, how would you
even know what you did wrong? Yeah?

1115
01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:51.479
You know exactly. Yeah, I
mean it makes perfect sense to me.

1116
01:24:53.960 --> 01:24:59.960
Spiritual evolution after death and under the
soul undergoes a process of spiritual purification.

1117
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:02.840
Oh, I just read that.
When I'm sorry, Reunion with the

1118
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:06.319
divine the ultimate destiny of the soul
is to reunite with this divine source,

1119
01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:12.840
often described as the all, the
One, the Noos. In Gnostic thought,

1120
01:25:12.880 --> 01:25:15.039
it can be known as the pleurroma, but it's the same thing.

1121
01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:19.279
They're interchangeable concepts. This reunion is
the culmination of the soul's journey, where

1122
01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:26.119
it merges back in the divine essence
from where it originated. There is the

1123
01:25:26.600 --> 01:25:30.119
existence of the multiple realms or plans, planes of existence beyond the physical world,

1124
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:35.039
like the heavenly realms where souls experienced
states of bliss and enlightenment, as

1125
01:25:35.079 --> 01:25:43.119
well as the lower realms associated with
spiritual stagnation or purification, karma, and

1126
01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:48.479
reincarnation. You undergo multiple lifetimes in
order to learn and evolve spiritually, with

1127
01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:53.439
each incarnation presenting opportunities for growth and
self realization. I wanted to pause with

1128
01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:57.600
these two points. This is why
I stopped believing in hell in the traditional

1129
01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:00.760
sense. You know how it goes
growing up being a kid. You're so

1130
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:02.439
terrified of Hell. You're praying every
night. Please don't send me to Hell.

1131
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:04.600
I'm sorry, God, I'm sorry
I said a cuss word, you

1132
01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:08.720
know, or whatever you did as
an elementary school kid. Afraid of the

1133
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:12.640
Boogeyman, the double gonna drag you
down a freaking hell. I start reading

1134
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:16.880
these Hermitic texts and it's like the
destiny of every soul is to eventually reincarnate

1135
01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:21.319
and you know, learn these lessons
and be purified and you know, go

1136
01:26:21.439 --> 01:26:24.359
back home, you know, to
the heighest round. And I'm like,

1137
01:26:24.439 --> 01:26:30.000
dude, Like, if souls are
supposed to be eternal, how can we

1138
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:35.159
believe that you live one life for
seventy years that's your one shot? You

1139
01:26:35.239 --> 01:26:40.199
know, you could be born into, you know, an impoveraged village in

1140
01:26:40.239 --> 01:26:43.640
Africa, or you could be born
in Beverly Hills and you're the child of

1141
01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:45.560
a rock star with millions of dollars. You know. It's like, how's

1142
01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:47.640
that fair? You know, yeah, it's not fair. Life is not

1143
01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:51.720
fair. Now, How does it
make sense that every soul has this equal

1144
01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:57.960
opportunity with one shot? And it's
like, oh, well, you didn't

1145
01:26:57.960 --> 01:27:01.359
confess Christ. Yeah, you're an
infinite least sealing your fate with this one

1146
01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:09.079
little lifetime, right, Infinitely,
your eternal fate depends on this one little

1147
01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:12.319
lifetime. Like it says in Genesis, were made in the image of God.

1148
01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:17.159
But I kind of feel like,
you know, God's immortal, God's

1149
01:27:17.199 --> 01:27:20.920
eternal, right, you know,
I was under the impression we're supposed to

1150
01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:24.640
be. But then you know,
there's this idea that we live this one

1151
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:27.800
life and then you die, and
then you die the second death after the

1152
01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:30.000
judgment. You know, you die
the second death and then you're in the

1153
01:27:30.079 --> 01:27:33.520
lake of fire forever, forever.
It just doesn't make sense to me.

1154
01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:36.960
It never really made sense. It
never made sense to me either. It

1155
01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:41.399
was scary, yep, but that
in the back of my head, I

1156
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.399
was always like, dass bullshit,
like no way. But in the front

1157
01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:48.279
of your head, you're like terrified, of course, because you're being told

1158
01:27:48.359 --> 01:27:53.800
to be terrified. Yeah, your
pastor is telling you, you know,

1159
01:27:54.399 --> 01:28:00.079
to be terrified. I had a
revival at my church one time. For

1160
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:02.039
those that don't know what revival is, it's like you have it's a whole

1161
01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:06.720
event, and it's like you have
pastors from all around the region, calm

1162
01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:13.239
and like guest pastors, and this
one guy literally said he said something like

1163
01:28:13.359 --> 01:28:16.399
it's been many years now, like
five to ten years, and he was

1164
01:28:16.479 --> 01:28:23.359
like, you think it's hard now, He said, you think it's hard

1165
01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:30.479
now? Life is roses compared to
the eternal flames of hell. I'm sitting

1166
01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:38.399
next to people who literally are suffering
drug addiction. Oh you think it's hard

1167
01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:44.760
now, Life is roses compared to
hell. And I'm like people sitting next

1168
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:48.800
to you living through hell, living
yeah, and died from it, you

1169
01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:53.199
know. And I'm sitting there thinking
like, uh wow, yeah, how

1170
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:58.479
insensitive? Right? How like?
It just it flies in the face of

1171
01:28:58.560 --> 01:29:02.640
everything that God is supposed to be. Right, man, it just never

1172
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:10.560
computed. It doesn't make sense.
Life is all roses, yeah, compared

1173
01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:14.960
to hell. Okay, man,
you made your point, but yeah,

1174
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:17.479
I mean the last point here is
that the union with the divine mind is

1175
01:29:17.520 --> 01:29:21.680
the ultimate destiny of the soul.
After everything, after the millions of lifetimes

1176
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:28.640
we apparently, according to Theosophic thought, might live, or hundreds of thousands

1177
01:29:28.680 --> 01:29:31.920
over millions of years or whatever.
It doesn't matter. The soul's journey is

1178
01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:38.720
to attain union with the divine mind, the cosmic intelligence through spiritual practice,

1179
01:29:38.880 --> 01:29:45.079
purification, illumination, cosmic evolution,
ongoing process, forever and ever and ever,

1180
01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:49.359
reaching the highest transcendent reality. And
that's it. That's her meticism.

1181
01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:55.119
It's all love. It's all light. It's all about just truth and the

1182
01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:58.840
harmony and the justice of the universe. And it's just crazy to me,

1183
01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:01.239
Like, dude, when you hear
this, when I first was researching her

1184
01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:04.600
meticism, it's like you kind of
on guard, like what's the catch?

1185
01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:09.600
Yeah, because there's always a catch. There's always something where you're like,

1186
01:30:10.119 --> 01:30:15.119
what's the catch I can't vibe with? There's always something what's the catch?

1187
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:17.600
You know? Is it a you
know, I gotta sacrifice a goat three

1188
01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:20.800
times a year? Is it?
You know? I gotta confess that I

1189
01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:26.279
believe Ali Baba's better at shipping products
than Amazon? Is it? You know?

1190
01:30:26.399 --> 01:30:30.000
Like, what's the catch here that
I'm not seeing with her meticism?

1191
01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:31.479
Is like literally, man, it's
like studying it for years and years and

1192
01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:34.159
years, I have not seen one
catch that's been alarming to me, Like

1193
01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:39.119
this is bullshit, this is evil, This is some weird, darker culture.

1194
01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:42.039
Like no, dude, it's all
like the the just the purest like

1195
01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:45.560
love and light. And it just
makes sense to me that, like it

1196
01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:53.800
is true. Yeah, it's all
very unifying and uplifting and it's it's a

1197
01:30:55.399 --> 01:31:00.079
it's something to look forward to.
It's it's like it's it's incur you know,

1198
01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:04.760
it's not it's not a rule book. It's good exactly. It's good

1199
01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:09.800
news, yeah, gospel. Yeah, it's it's not like that's what gospel.

1200
01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:12.560
It means the good news. Yeah, but it's not like, dude,

1201
01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:14.840
it's like going to church. It's
like, I believe in God.

1202
01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:20.479
I believe in this, but like
I you know, there's some things like

1203
01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:24.880
why can't I buy on Sunday?
Right? Why can't I cut my hair?

1204
01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:27.840
Yeah? I mean, come on, man, I want I want

1205
01:31:27.880 --> 01:31:30.119
a tattoo. Yeah, I mean
it's like, dude, I gotta wear

1206
01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.239
a suit on Sunday or I'm you
know, ostracized. My wife has lipstick

1207
01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:38.000
on it. She's a Jezebel.
Like, what's the catch. There's a

1208
01:31:38.079 --> 01:31:40.319
catch? You know, there's always
a catch. You know. It's like

1209
01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:43.600
there's always a catch with these spiritual
systems. Bro. And it's like,

1210
01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:46.000
I'm just telling you, man,
that's the cool thing about her medicism.

1211
01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:49.960
It's like a relief hearing this ship
after someone who's been seeking knowledge my whole

1212
01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:53.239
life. Everything I read about this, I'm like, dang, this is

1213
01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:57.279
is kind of like it's comforting,
it is it makes you feel good good,

1214
01:31:57.520 --> 01:32:00.199
it does, Like, Wow,
you're telling me I don't have to

1215
01:32:00.279 --> 01:32:04.279
go through some like strict rules to
like be on pins and needles and suffer

1216
01:32:04.399 --> 01:32:08.159
mentally my whole life and be afraid
that I'm sinning and going to hell.

1217
01:32:08.479 --> 01:32:11.159
Oh you mean to say, Like
all I gotta do is just like really

1218
01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:14.399
try to be a good person in
commune with God, to just be the

1219
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.159
best version of myself that I can
be. But understand that, like it's

1220
01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:23.119
a process that goes on forever and
ever and ever, and don't have all

1221
01:32:23.159 --> 01:32:25.800
this pressure to get it right.
You don't have to have all the answers

1222
01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:30.399
right now. Yeah, it's like
walking a tightrope versus just flowing down a

1223
01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:34.680
stream. Like walking the tightrope is
like the religion, the exoteric, like

1224
01:32:35.560 --> 01:32:40.159
you're always on your toes, you're
always on edge, like don't fuck up,

1225
01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:44.359
don't fuck up. And then her
meticism is like chill the fuck out.

1226
01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:47.159
Yeah it's fine, it's fine.
It's like no, literally, like

1227
01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:53.680
relax, chill, it's fine,
release your attachment. Yeah, just chill.

1228
01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:56.039
If you don't get it right this
time, you'll get it right another

1229
01:32:56.119 --> 01:32:58.760
time. It's gonna happen millions of
times. And guess what, even after

1230
01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:02.439
you're dead, it'll keep going on, Even after your soul leaves this material

1231
01:33:02.479 --> 01:33:06.680
plane, it'll keep going. You'll
keep flowing, like just chilling. And

1232
01:33:06.760 --> 01:33:11.159
it's like, you know, it's
not I'm not making a case for like,

1233
01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:13.840
oh I'm off the hook. I
don't have to try. Like,

1234
01:33:13.920 --> 01:33:15.720
no, you do have to try, because everybody has to try. That's

1235
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:19.560
why we're here. I think everybody
has the responsibility to genuinely try to be

1236
01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:25.279
the best version of themselves they can
be. That doesn't mean, you know,

1237
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:29.079
you should have all this pressure on
yourself to be like perfect to this

1238
01:33:29.319 --> 01:33:32.079
ultimate person. It's just you understand
the laws. You understand the nature of

1239
01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:35.000
the universe and reality itself and how
God works. And it's like, Okay,

1240
01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:41.439
the key takeaway here is there is
a force that is not only trying

1241
01:33:41.479 --> 01:33:45.479
to help you, but it is
you. You know what I mean,

1242
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:48.000
Like it's it's trying to help you. You know, it's not trying to

1243
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:53.359
curse you. It's not trying to
put the lightning bolt because you send like

1244
01:33:53.520 --> 01:33:56.159
no, no, no, It's
like dude, like you came here for

1245
01:33:56.279 --> 01:34:01.239
a reason and like just just if
you fuck up to a big freaking woolp

1246
01:34:01.279 --> 01:34:03.920
man. Just get up and try
again tomorrow. It's you know, it's

1247
01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:08.399
like it's it's it's not that serious, you know what I mean, It's

1248
01:34:08.439 --> 01:34:12.159
not that serious, but it is
too. It's the paradox, yeah,

1249
01:34:12.920 --> 01:34:15.960
duality of it. Yeah. But
you know, I'm gonna go on record

1250
01:34:16.039 --> 01:34:23.399
and say her medicism is cool and
good. Yeah. I think I can

1251
01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:30.159
get behind that message. There's no
rules. Hey, I mean, you

1252
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:34.880
know, how's the song going?
Dang, I was gonna say, on

1253
01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:41.520
man, shirt brother. Yeah,
so the moral of the story is get

1254
01:34:41.560 --> 01:34:45.279
that cream on your cake, all
right, dude, get that cream on

1255
01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:47.239
your cake. The shirt brothers,
how does it go? The song?

1256
01:34:47.560 --> 01:34:50.600
I don't remember. I don't remember. It's like some famous band though that

1257
01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:55.159
made it really Yeah, you know, it's like the White Stripes or something.

1258
01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:57.520
I don't know. There's some famous
band. We'll find it after that.

1259
01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:01.000
I can't remember. Yeah, I
think you should leave. It's a

1260
01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:05.279
great show. Yeah, watch it, but also like I think we should

1261
01:35:05.359 --> 01:35:13.520
leave, like it's okay, my
god, my god. Weird things happen

1262
01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:24.039
in the backyard of Bletsoe House.
You see it, look up. It's

1263
01:35:24.199 --> 01:35:34.199
so weird. Coming closer to us
here status straight up like smiling on the

1264
01:35:34.239 --> 01:35:45.640
inside of it. No one knows. Man, Wow, it's come right

1265
01:35:45.760 --> 01:36:25.439
over good. I'm sorry. Being
a happy, happ